HEADS UP: svn->git transition

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Peter Kjellerstedt
<peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org [mailto:uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org] On
>> Behalf Of Mike Frysinger
>> Sent: den 29 april 2009 18:59
>> To: uclibc at uclibc.org
>> Cc: busybox at busybox.net; buildroot at uclibc.org
>> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: svn->git transition
>>
>> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 12:52:29 Bernd Schmidt wrote:
>> > Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
>> > > git push -v --thin git+ssh://$USERNAME@uclibc.org/srv/git/uClibc.git
>> >
>> > Huh.  Does git really work if multiple people push to the same
>> > repository?  That's news to me.  All the online examples seem to
>> > suggest using git push as a means to provide a git-pullable
>> > repository for others, but not for writing to a central repository.
>>
>> afaik it should work fine.  if you try to push and someone else already
>> has, you'll get the typical "rejecting non-fast forward update".
>> -mike
>
> It works fine, but requires some discipline. E.g., the GStreamer
> project uses git this way. One of the important things to
> remember when using a central git repository in this way is
> to always rebase the local repository before pushing. Otherwise
> you will end up with a lot of unnecessary merges.

Open Embedded uses push model too. It works ok.

>
> //Peter
>
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