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Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Moving beyond arm waving?
From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-03 22:47:16


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Belcourt, K. Noel <kbelco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Vladimir Prus  wrote:
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>>> - Beman suggests to play with git, using one library. That seems OK.
>
> I'd like to propose that we follow the Clang approach.  Instead of playing with one Boost library converted to git, let's convert the entire SVN repo in it's current structure to git, and publicly maintain it by adding an SVN post-commit hook to run 'git svn fetch' following each SVN commit to bring the git repo up to date (or update the git mirror every few hours via cron).
>
> I'm happy to offer resources to establish and maintain a git mirror if that would help.
>
> -- Noel

This may be a dumb question, but if a group of developers wants to
collaborate using git, do they really care if in the end they push to
a git or a svn repository?

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode


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