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> From: Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]>
>To: Alexis Menard <[email protected]>
>Cc: Ashod Nakashian <[email protected]>; WebKit Development
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2012 9:19 PM
>Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Moving to Git?
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>On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Alexis Menard <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>I don't use svn but the only benefit I see of WebKit using svn is the
>>linear history, clean, easy to read and to explore. Git repos tend to
>>have merging commits a lot and it leads to make bisecting/history
>>browsing harder (my taste).
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>And that's a show stopper for me. For build bot maintenance, regression fixes,
>etc... being able to easily tell the number of commits between two revisions
>(in my head as opposed to using a tool) or the ordering of commits is crucial.
I think this is an interesting point. It seems there are two solutions. We can
enforce fast-forward as many have pointed out and we can maintain an SVN
mirror. Although I don't like the idea of maintaining an SVN repo, and it's
almost universally agreed that git offers superior tools to SVN.
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>Then for everything else I use git and its power locally.
>>
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>Right. Git clients are pretty nice.
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>- Ryosuke
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