On 2/14/2011 5:59 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Rene Rivera<grafikrobot@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/13/2011 10:15 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
The point of this public repo is to gain actual use experience with Git and with a modularized Boost library. Modularization followed the pattern ryppl is proposing - the top level directory is the same as the current SVN list/filesystem, with the addition an "include" directory with a "boost" sub-directory containing the current SVN boost/filesystem stuff. None of the existing filesystem content was changed.
I'm wondering if to make a more accurate comparison of the git experience vs. svn, it would be worthwhile to experiment with maintaining a modularized Boost Library directly in subversion.
That might be interesting, but in SVN I don't know how to do the equivalent of Git local commits with occasional pushes to a public remote. I've been using that development model on other projects and have come to like it so much I've lost interest in SVN.
You create a branch where you put the module, i.e. where you do all your work. When you want to publish, you merge/push to a common tree (or to another branch of the same marked as "release", or "trunk", etc.). It's the same development model, except it's all done in SVN. [...]
Again, that's really a different experiment. Its basically simulating a distributed development environment with svn. The equivalent of "git push" is simulated with merge scripts. But I'm just not interested in trying to hang onto svn. I've come to like git much better. It gets in my way less often than svn.
I thought the part of the experiment was to compare against SVN? And obviously comparing against our current use of SVN would be an unfair comparison. Since if there's a way to use the current tools in the same way as Git would that not be a reasonable choice to move to? I.e. would it not be a reasonable choice to move to using SVN with modular libraries? I guess I've lost what the point of experimentation is without looking at all the immediate alternatives :-\ -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail