HEADS UP: svn->git transition

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Apr 29 23:53:39 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 29 April 2009 16:34, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 02:49:39PM +0100, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> > Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> >
> >> We will be switching to git (instead of svn) for our repositories.
> >
> > Any particular reason?
> 
> I've asked a couple of folks and they too found git easier to use.
> Benefits in my POV include:
> - bisect. Makes it easy to track down a regression
> - easier merging between a couple of branches
> - convenient git-am to apply patches from email
> etc.
> 
> > As far as I know, git works on local repositories.  How will we get  
> > things committed into a mainline repository?
> 
> git push -v --thin git+ssh://$USERNAME@uclibc.org/srv/git/uClibc.git
> Paths will differ a bit, i will update the developer instructions on the
> webpage accordingly.

Please send a mail when it's up. Right now,

git clone git+ssh://vda@busybox.net/var/lib/git/busybox.git

clones some oldish tree.

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