Re: [ros-dev] Rethinking our Git merge workflow

2017-09-14 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Colin Finck wrote: > Hi all! > > After playing around with GitHub's features in > https://github.com/colinfinck/sandbox for the last few days, it turns > out that its server-side settings hardly prevent repository mess. > > Although I have set master to be a "prot

Re: [ros-dev] Pale Moon drops ReactOS support

2016-05-17 Thread Neal Gompa
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti wrote: > > Windows Server 2003 is definitely supported by Microsoft (which doesn't mean > it is supported by others, and it mostly isn't), but it is almost dead, and > it would only do harm to deny that. I had to jump in on this, because th

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Mike Swanson wrote: > On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 09:45 +, Oliver Schneider wrote: >> I have worked with reposurgeon for nearly three years and it's the >> only >> comprehensive tool, I know of, to achieve lossless copies of a repo >> in >> another version control sy

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:54 AM, David Quintana (gigaherz) wrote: > I think the real goal with moving to a platform such as github is reducing > the entry barriers for new contributors. As it has been mentioned already, > almost all projects who moved from SVN with "send patches" contribution > sy

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Ged Murphy wrote: > Are we not just looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't really > exist? Is SVN stopping us from doing anything, or from changing to a better > way of working for our project style? The move from CVS to SVN was worth > doing, but is a mo

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-24 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Colin Finck wrote: > Hi Mike, > > So I was about to finish my ongoing server work in the next few days and > then push for a move to Git on the mailing lists. Thanks for spoiling > those plans! :) > > I totally agree with all your raised points. I'm using Git every