Christian Michon wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Milan Vancura <mi...@ucw.cz> wrote: > >> > 5. what about a cooperation with Christian and pul his git tree as > >> > vim_upstream? There is no dependency on svn, nice tags for vim > >> > versions are > >> > there... Would it be possible? > >> > >> No, it wouldn't. > >> It looks nice at first sight, but it isn't really useful for > >> development. Look at the branches, they each have their own root, they > >> don't have any relation to each other. With Vim 7.3, the master branch > >> will be rewritten from scratch. You can't merge and forward-port the > >> feature branches to the next minor release. In fact you'd end up with a > >> rebase of all your branches as well. > > > > It would be nice if you two agreed on some simple system good for everyone. > > I > > think that the development of vim is, from its definition (just one > > committer) > > linear. So if there were tags for each versio of vim and patches named by > > their > > number and subject, one can find everything in history easily. We don't > > probably need no branches for upstream vim, we need them for paralel > > development like patch sets of other authors etc. > > And with patches named with their number (and subject), we will not need so > > many tags... > > I asked Markus his requirements: his answers show a trend hard to > satisfy. I also know from vim cvs the current existing linear flow. > > I now believe branches should be up to the local git directory: we'll > never get to convince anybody that this or that specific workflow is > the best. > > So I'm moving forward to have a linear git repo with few tags (ex: > beginning of vim-7.0 and last vim-7.0). The users will be able to > checkout those tags in their local repo and this will create local > branches with the tag's names. > > Anyone against this ? If it gets enough votes, I'll use git-cvsimport > I did during this weekend and make minor modifications/grafts. The > result will be visible on github (I'll announce it when ready) > > Bram: any chance we could get your opinion on this subject ? I have no opinion on how to use git. -- How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity: 8. Don't use any punctuation marks. /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
