Olaf van der Spek wrote:
What happens when the repo you "publish" the patch from goes away before anyone has a chance t get it?
You mean what happens if you delete your patch/repo? Well, surprise, it's gone. :p
In the example of github.com, there's a big red frame around the 'delete repository' admin section marked 'DANGER ZONE'. It's kinda hard to not see that and delete a repo accidentally. There's also usually no reason to do that intentionally as you can always re-sync and re-use the repo for new development after your first changes were accepted upstream. another advantage: svn puts a '.svn' folder in every single project subfolder - and this '.svn' keeps getting in my way all the time. If you want to get rid of subversion in your local copy, you have to walk through all the subfolders and delete the '.svn' folder everywere. under git, you delete one single '.git' folder in the root folder, done.