I think a 100% firm prerequisite is concise, precise, and novice-level
instructions on exactly how to use git in the context of WebKit
development.
As someone who has been living on git for a few weeks, I find many of
the conveniences to be great, and it is obviously very powerful.
But "steep learning curve" is an understatement - more like "throw out
your CVS and SVN experience, and relearn version control"
The potential is great, but think of the prospective developers who
are already (sadly) frustrated by the relatively tame learning curve
of SVN.
~Brady
On Oct 8, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote:
In recent weeks/months a number of webkit developers have started
using Git for day to day development, and have found it very
useful. Git is yet another revision control system, but unlike
RCS's such as cvs and svn it allows local branches and makes merging
branches much easier. In addition to making bracnhes much more
manageable, it has a few other advantages:
* Speed: Git is much faster than svn (which becomes very valuable
on windows,
* History: Git's history is much nicer than that of svn, especially
with regards to patches submitted by people without commit rights,
as it is able to distinguish the author of a patch from the person
who committed it.
* Collaboration: It is possible for people to publish their git
tree's in a way that allows them to be tracked by others, allowing
people to collaborate on bugs and/or features much more easily
without actually committing to a central repository.
Unfortunately, git is still not as user friendly as svn, and has a
relatively steep learning curve (largely due to it using some
similar commands to svn for completely different purposes :-/ )
On the other hand, those of us using git currently have to use the
git-svn bridge which, while functional, is somewhat slow. I think
(and i'm hoping others agree) that despite the slightly more complex
interface the improved merging, branching, and speed mean that we
should seriously consider switching to git as our primary RCS.
Any comments from others are welcome.
--Oliver
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