At Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:06:57 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: > > On 06-02-08 15:06, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > > BTW: Does anyone know if it's possible to just pick a patch from a HG > > branch to another? STG (Stacked GIT) has nice 'stg pick <branch>@<patch>' > > command for this. > > Not me, but thought I'd take the opportunity to ask if switching to git is > (still) an absolute no. As far as I can see, hg has mostly downsides, with > needing a conduit between it and upstream for example that I saw Linus > complain about recently. Well, this isn't about HG but the mechanism that alsa.git tree is generated. The same would happen if you do automatic-commitment between different trees. It would be same even if you use git, as long as you have a different tree structure like the current alsa-kernel tree vs linux kernel tree. > I'm used to git by now, and every time I try do something inside ALSA I just > keep on typing the wrong commands to hg, needing the manpage, not being > certain that I'm not fucking up my local tree... > > I can definitely say that hg is not being instrumental in making me more of > a contributor. When I _do_ do something I tend to just work against the > kernel inside git and then only in the end apply the result to the current > hg just to see if it will. > > I believe the git submodule stuff would also nicely allow all of ALSA to be > one giant repo basically, with kernel, lib, ..., as submodules. Just out of curiosity, what could be a merit of submodules in the case of ALSA? Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
