Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-14 Thread Gerard Krol
Hi all, I'm glad the Ready for the switch to git? email spawned a lively discussion, and that a lot of people tried to actually use git. Below are replies to different people, bundled together to prevent me from repeating myself: Zarel wrote: 2009/3/13 Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-14 Thread Per Inge Mathisen
We had something akin to what is described to the git way of doing version control in the Berlios days. Each developer wanting to do something was given his own branch, and then someone would somehow merge stuff for a release. It was a disaster. We need an official repository that everyone work up

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-14 Thread Elio Gubser
Hi all My impression is that git is good, and probably the future, but still a rather immature tool. Or maybe I and the other sceptics are the immature ones that just need more time to wrap our brains around it. Either way, I would like us to ask google for hosting for now. - Per +1 As

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-14 Thread Zarel
2009/3/14 Elio Gubser elio.o...@gmail.com: As far as i understand the 'git-way' needs a person who merges every developers commits togheter. Well I fear, with our current development activity and team size, this would produce a lot of overhead and bureaucracy for no big advantage. This. (By

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-14 Thread Dennis Schridde
Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 13:51:33 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen: We need an official repository that everyone work up against, directly or indirectly, and unless I am mistaken, even the linux kernel has this. They used a shared repository? Do you have some docs on how they propose to deal with

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-14 Thread Per Inge Mathisen
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net wrote: Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 13:51:33 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen: We need an official repository that everyone work up against, directly or indirectly, and unless I am mistaken, even the linux kernel has this. They used a

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-14 Thread Dennis Schridde
Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 16:55:03 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net wrote: Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 13:51:33 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen: We need an official repository that everyone work up against, directly or indirectly, and

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-14 Thread Christian Ohm
On Saturday, 14 March 2009 at 20:22, Dennis Schridde wrote: Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 16:55:03 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen: On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net wrote: Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 13:51:33 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen: We need an official

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Freddie Witherden
Hi all, +1 on sticking with SVN. Regards, Freddie. ___ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Dennis Schridde
Dear Git users! Am Freitag, 13. März 2009 11:16:30 schrieb Gerard Krol: Please test if cloning the repository works for you. If you like, you can clone the mainline repository on Gitorious (one click+entering a name) For those who do not immediately figure it out:

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Elio Gubser
hi all what should we do with the 'originals'? regards elio Am Freitag, den 13.03.2009, 11:49 +0100 schrieb Dennis Schridde: Dear Git users! Am Freitag, 13. März 2009 11:16:30 schrieb Gerard Krol: Please test if cloning the repository works for you. If you like, you can clone the

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Per Inge Mathisen
Let's all test the new git repositories a bit before moving the official repository to it. Personally I am scared by things like this: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net wrote: Devurandom has convinced me that a shared repository (with multiple people pushing

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Gerard Krol
Freddie Witherden wrote: +1 on sticking with SVN. Could you tell us your reasons for wanting to stick with svn? - Gerard ___ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Dennis Schridde
Am Freitag, 13. März 2009 11:53:57 schrieb Elio Gubser: what should we do with the 'originals'? Er, yes... I told you that they will be lost in git-svn. Use an extra repos maybe? --DevU signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Gerard Krol
Per Inge Mathisen wrote: Personally I am scared by things like this: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net wrote: Devurandom has convinced me that a shared repository (with multiple people pushing to) does not work well with git. The wording is

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Kreuvf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Schridde wrote: We could rotate the job. ;) Whoever has the time is assigned to do it for a month and then it is passed to the next in the active-chain. IMHO this would add lots of management overhead as you would have to find out a) Who

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Stephen Swaney
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:01:19PM +0100, Per Inge Mathisen wrote: Let's all test the new git repositories a bit before moving the official repository to it. Personally I am scared by things like this: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net wrote: Devurandom

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Zarel
2009/3/13 Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net Perhaps I'm becoming a neo-Luddite or perhaps I've been in this business too long, but I find the lack of a single shared repository disturbing.  I do know a software development effort lives and dies on the basis of its source code management.

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread bugs buggy
On 3/13/09, Zarel zare...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/13 Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net Perhaps I'm becoming a neo-Luddite or perhaps I've been in this business too long, but I find the lack of a single shared repository disturbing. I do know a software development effort lives and

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Dennis Schridde
Am Freitag, 13. März 2009 23:12:58 schrieb bugs buggy: On 3/13/09, Zarel zare...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/13 Stephen Swaney sswa...@centurytel.net Perhaps I'm becoming a neo-Luddite or perhaps I've been in this business too long, but I find the lack of a single shared repository

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Zarel
2009/3/13 Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net: 1) Have a someone maintain the mainline repository on Gitorious and prepare releases from there. Or my favourite: 2) Assign a release maintainer (practically we already did that for 2.0 and 2.1), and he will fetch all the loose ends from the dev

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Elio Gubser
Hi all First I'm sorry that i've been absent during your discussions about git I'd like to stick with svn. The only _really_ issue is buggy's connection problems. We should only tackle this problem and not create new ones with introducing a completely different vcs. At least I am very happy with

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread bugs buggy
On 3/13/09, Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net wrote: Am Freitag, 13. März 2009 23:12:58 schrieb bugs buggy: This is a good point. If we don't have a centralized repo, then I am not sure how we can 'control' (for the lack of a better word) what the distros ship out. IMO there is a

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread bugs buggy
On 3/13/09, Zarel zare...@gmail.com wrote: I again suggest Google Code (SVN). The last time I suggested it, the only objection was that EvilGuru disliked that even though Google would near certainly accept the request, they have the choice to reject the request. Which is a rather silly

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread Dennis Schridde
Hi Buggy! Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 01:30:39 schrieb bugs buggy: Sounds ok, I am just not sure how we can shift the load around, since we don't really have enough people to shift the load, and the same people end up doing it all the time, and when those people are away, then we are sorta

Re: [Warzone-dev] Ready for the switch to git?

2009-03-13 Thread bugs buggy
On 3/13/09, Dennis Schridde devuran...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Buggy! Am Samstag, 14. März 2009 01:30:39 schrieb bugs buggy: now, how do we work with the files, since they are still in the main directory. I am not exactly sure what you are explaining here... I mean, I know how git