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...ally will cause inconveniences to everybody. Having a set of maintainers with write privileges that incorporates patches submitted to the mailing list, *maybe* is a better arrangement. > Let's avoid all the religious argument about how distributed version > control is somehow better than centralistic version control. What are > the precise gains from changing the status quo? What can you do by > moving everything to Git that you couldn't do in the current world > with svn as master repository and the additional git mirror? git-svn is quite ok for lone developers doing experiment...

...are effectively telling us that the current workflow is not supported by Git. You are also telling us that the current workflow is in some way wrong or misguided or suboptimal and has to change. Let's avoid all the religious argument about how distributed version control is somehow better than centralistic version control. What are the precise gains from changing the status quo? What can you do by moving everything to Git that you couldn't do in the current world with svn as master repository and the additional git mirror? If the argument is "I don't like svn", it is weak. Others...

fly language <flylanguage at gmail.com> writes: >> After git, mainline will still be the most important branch for the >> *project*, >> but you will work with quite a few branches on parallel. >> >> > Who's mainline? :) Be prepared to assign a super-merger, like Linus, to > maintain the "mainline". > > The git workflow works really

> After git, mainline will still be the most important branch for the > *project*, > but you will work with quite a few branches on parallel. > > Who's mainline? :) Be prepared to assign a super-merger, like Linus, to maintain the "mainline". The git workflow works really really great, but it does require getting rid of mainline thinking. It doesn't exist.