Re: [boost] [git] neglected aspects

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] neglected aspects
From: Michael Caisse (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-08 13:35:15

On 2/8/2012 9:29 AM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
>>> Also, I notice a few other things that in my opinion could be done
>>> better to facilitate adoption of the iostreams library. I would be
>>> willing to do the work and I would in the perfect position as I am
>>> walking in the shoes of an adopter right now - but these are separate
>>> from the typo fixes and they are larger issues; considering I can't
>>> check my changes in, would I really want to have them sit on my local
>>> harddrive, waiting possibly for months for someone upstream to review
>>> and hopefully merge them ?
>>
>> So with git you pushed them to your personal fork. Over time, your fork
>> and the upstream version eventually diverge. You have to maintain your
>> changes. Same thing when the changes lurk on your local svn working.
>
> well, your svn working copy is just a bunch of files, while git's personal
> branches are part of the repository ... you can merge, rebase, stash, etc ...
> with svn your working copy gets easily out of sync ...
> the nice thing of git is that it does not really harm if your branch diverges
> from upstream, as its merge facilities are much more sophisticated than
> everything that subversion has to offer ...
>
> frankly, since i moved my code into boost's svn, i find it way more fragile to
> maintain than before
>
> tim
>

Hi Tim -

I am interested in your views here. I have had good success with git and 
monolithic projects. How would you go about working on your library and 
then pushing to the central repo. Would you envision that the central 
repo is nothing more than a shell pointing to submodules that are the 
"real" library repos? Or would you just rebase all of boost before 
committing back modifications to your library? Or some other process 
completely?

I'm sure people have thought about this problem and the solutions. You 
might be one of them. Unfortunately I mostly hear how great it would be 
to move to git but few have provided the usage for a project like boost 
: a loosely coupled and independently developed collection of libraries.

Thanks!
michael

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