Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?
From: Thomas Heller (thom.heller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-22 07:41:24

On 03/22/2012 12:11 PM, Bronek Kozicki wrote:
> On 22/03/2012 10:43, Thomas Heller wrote:
>> On 03/22/2012 11:32 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:
> ...
>>> If you publish a repository on GitHub and tell me about then I might
>>> look at the commits there and give you feedback. If I'm not basing any
>>> work on the changes, then it's no problem if you later destroy the
>>> commits and even delete the repository.
>> Right, the *second* i hit the "fork" button on github, everyone sees my
>> new repository.
>
> right. The usual way to use (any) DVCS is that this publicly available 
> fork repository (i.e. github) is considered shared work, meaning you 
> only append your work there (no rewriting history).
>
> If you want to use DVCS in distributed manner, your commits would go 
> first to your local repository (i.e. filesystem on your local machine) 
> where you can tweak them to your heart's content before pushing them 
> to shared repository (after which point these commits are shared and 
> thus should not be changed any more).
>
> Since everyone else (with right permissions) does the same, it's very 
> easy to keep track of other's work because you will frequently rebase 
> your local repository from the public one, with someone elses work 
> appended to it. This trigers automatic merging of changes in your 
> repository which you have not shared yet (on top of current head of 
> shared repository, as copied to your repository). Most of the time 
> this merging process is fast and totaly transparent. And when it is 
> not, getting out of trouble is not really that difficult - normally 
> just manually fix files when git asks you to do so, or at worst you do 
> "git rebase --abort" and try again.
>
>
> B.
I can see what advantages a DCVS setup can bring. And I understand the 
implications. What I am still opposed to is a tool that makes screw ups, 
even if they just happen locally, possible.
I think it does not speak for a tool that it is quite easily possible to 
get in trouble in the first place. Maybe that's just me. For now, i will 
resign from this thread and see what actually will get proposed and 
judge again then.