On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 05:31:20AM -0700, Marshall Clow wrote:
Development of Boost will move from a monolithic subversion repository to the much-discussed Git repository structure consisting of one super-module that points (via submodules) to other repositories, each containing an individual Boost library. The Git repositories will be hosted on github.
I hope that this is coupled with very clear and unambigious instructions on things like "how to work in submodules", as that's something which I have repeatedly misunderstood and successfully use to completely destroy my own repositories. We need proper documentation and operating procedures, preferably something that has been well tested in our future configuration. Also note that if you for some reason go to Github, I believe that the default configuration is to allow forced pushes, which no mortal really should be able to do without a lot of override. If they had disabled those, some of my repositories would still be usable after my submodule messups. (tangent below) Another interesting thing to note is that if you ever use submodules, Mercurial's "hg convert" and many other repository adaptors cannot handle the repository, which closes the door if anyone ever feels like changing VCSes. -- Lars Viklund | zao@acc.umu.se