llvm dev - Jul 2011 - [LLVMdev] git

On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:37 AM, FlyLanguage wrote:
> Yes, but who's mainline? Is the plan to have a centralized repo with a
mainline branch that everybody pushes to, or the a linux style model where some
person has an official mainline to which he pulls?
> 
> It's quite different things.
>From my interpretation of what Chris has said about this, it would be the
former (centralized repo with a master branch that everyone pushes to).  I agree
with that.  We have a development process that works well, and I see no
compelling reasons to change it.
Personally I think our current system is a very nice middle ground.  We get nice
sequential revision numbers from svn, and behind the scenes everyone can go
crazy with git.  It's a little awkward to set up a new repo that pulls from
the git mirrors and also lets you use git-svn dcommit to push back, but
that's a minor nuisance AFAICT.

On Jul 28, 2011, at 2:00 PM, David A. Greene wrote:
> Bob Wilson <bob.wilson at apple.com> writes:
> 
> 
>> It's a little awkward to set up a new repo that pulls from the git
>> mirrors and also lets you use git-svn dcommit to push back, but
that's
>> a minor nuisance AFAICT.
> 
> No to people who use git regularly, it isn't.  git-svn imposes all
sorts
> of restrictions on what kind of commits it wants to see and the git user
> ends up having to work around them.  Things that are trivial with git
> (merges) become more complicated with git-svn.  This in turn
> fundamentally changes how git can be used by the developer.
Sorry, but I have no idea what you're talking about.  I use git exclusively
for all my llvm development, and I make extensive use of branches and merging. 
I haven't had any problems related to git-svn.