[Vm-dev] Changing my mailing list subscription

Camillo Bruni camillobruni at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 21:20:53 UTC 2012


On 2012-09-05, at 23:13, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 September 2012 21:12, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> However, having a trunk handled with SVN and branches handled with git
>>> is perfectly manageable right?
>> 
>> I don't think so. Are there currently any changes flowing back to the SVN trunk?
>> 
>> But then again, how many merges have I done in SVN 1, in git? gazillions...
>> concerning merging, SVN is simply outdated, any new distributed versioning
>> system (mercurial, git...) outperforms SVN by far.
>> 
>> And so far I must say that git allows me to develop much more agile than SVN.
> 
> There's nothing stopping anyone from using git-svn [1] to push to the
> SVN repository. (I agree that git is incomparably superior to svn in
> every way, but this would allow changes to flow to the supposedly
> canonical repository _today_.)

sure, but nobody does it? I see changes being imported that way into 
the git repository. but I doubt that it's our responsibility to push 
them back. But as you say, everybody is invited to do so, the tools
are there...


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