Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:29:35AM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > 2007/9/8, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > > And this all is naturally from the developer/maintainer POV, as > > > translators and documentors do not benefit from

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Kalle Vahlman
2007/9/8, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > 2007/9/8, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:56:38AM -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: > > > Let's summarize it as: I don't know any D-SCM :-) (only investigate

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Christian Rose
On 9/9/07, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 18:49 +0200, Christian Rose wrote: > > Nothing is ever solved by letting others be > > responsible for solving problems that may have been introduced by you. > > Or vice versa. That's a basic fact in SCM. > > But more oft

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 18:49 +0200, Christian Rose wrote: > Nothing is ever solved by letting others be > responsible for solving problems that may have been introduced by you. > Or vice versa. That's a basic fact in SCM. But more often than not the build is left broken by a translator. -- behda

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Christian Rose
On 9/9/07, Steve Frécinaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 12:48 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > - Move translations out of modules into a new module dedicated to > > translations of all GNOME modules. Fixes many build-broken issues but > > has many more issues. > > That's h

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:37 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 09:41 -0700, Sanford Armstrong wrote: > > > I simply meant that less people are familiar with D-SCM tools and that > > they are somewhat harder for a newbie to learn than C-SCM tools. Not necessarily. Try t

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:24 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > Then you just do not create a new branch, commit when you're done on the > master branch, and push the patch once it is ready, or attach it to a > bugzilla bug using git-send-bugzilla [1]. Note that git allows you to > "amend" a commit, i

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 09:41 -0700, Sanford Armstrong wrote: > I simply meant that less people are familiar with D-SCM tools and that > they are somewhat harder for a newbie to learn than C-SCM tools. You're mistaken. Actually, it's not harder to learn a DSCM than a regular centralised one. What

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 12:48 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > - Move translations out of modules into a new module dedicated to > translations of all GNOME modules. Fixes many build-broken issues but > has many more issues. That's how KDE guys do, I think. IMHO it has the following advantages:

Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

2007-09-09 Thread Steve Frécinaux
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 22:23 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 04:47:31PM +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > > 2007/9/8, Olav Vitters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 05:56:38AM -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: > > > Let's summarize it as: I don't know any D-SCM :-) (only