On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Patrick Boettcher <pboettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to start a discussion which ideally results in either changing > the SCM of v4l-dvb to git _or_ leaving everything as it is today with > mercurial. > > To start right away: I'm in favour of using GIT because of difficulties I > have with my "daily" work with v4l-dvb. It is in my nature do to mistakes, > so I need a tool which assists me in fixing those, I have not found a simple > way to do my stuff with HG. > > I'm helping out myself using a citation from which basically describes why > GIT fits the/my needs better than HG (*): > > "The culture of mercurial is one of immutability. This is quite a good > thing, and it's one of my favorite aspects of gnu arch. If I commit > something, I like to know that it's going to be there. Because of this, > there are no tools to manipulate history by default. > > git is all about manipulating history. There's rebase, commit amend, > reset, filter-branch, and probably other commands I'm not thinking of, > many of which make it into day-to-day workflows. Then again, there's > reflog, which adds a big safety net around this mutability." > > The first paragraph here describes exactly my problem and the second > descibes how to solve it. > > My suggestion is not to have the full Linux Kernel source as a new base for > v4l-dvb development, but "only" to replace the current v4l-dvb hg with a GIT > one. Importing all the history and everything. > > Unfortunately it will change nothing for Mauro's job. > > I also understand that it does not give a lot to people who haven't used GIT > until now other than a new SCM to learn. But believe me, once you've done a > rebase when Mauro has asked you to rebuild your tree before he can merge it, > you will see what I mean. > > I'm waiting for comments. I prefer git myself, but I'm not really actively working on v4l at the moment, so, I leave it up to the active devs. One nice thing about git is the ability to maintain patch authorship. Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
