Re: [boost] Git permissions model

Subject: Re: [boost] Git permissions model
From: Daniel James (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-05 19:04:32

On 4 December 2013 20:54, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> - Suppose I find a random typo in library X. In SVN, I can just fix it
>> within a minute.
>>   In Git, I would have to either ask for push access (which I think won't
>> scale), or
>>   I need to fork the repo, to the change, and submit a pull request, which
>> is equally
>>   cumbersome. Was not Git supposed to simplify things?
>>
>
> I've had exactly the same thoughts. I'm guessing there is some third way of
> handling simple "drive-by" fixes, and we don't know what it is because of
> unfamiliarity.
>
> Other projects using git have almost certainly figured out an easy way to
> handle "drive-by" fixes. We need to tap into that experience to find out
> what works. In similar situations, a bit of googling around quickly turns
> up blogs or stackoverflow solutions that are known to work.

I think the Linux kernel uses git's built in pull request mechanism. I
don't know anything about it, so I don't know if it would be
appropriate for us. Most people do seem to prefer using github, and as
many of our contributors are windows users they might be more
comfortable using a web interface than the command line. Here's Linus
Torvalds writing about it in his charming manner:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-5654674