On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think the difference between what Linus says and what he actually > means in the above video could be easily misinterpreted, well especially > for some non-english speaking folks. But I am certainly glad to see > that a russian translation is also available for this google git talk > for those who really want try to understand his reasons (and technical > requirements) for what he is saying. > > So as to the specifics about why git is really the only right SCM choice > for mainline target mode maintainership, it really all comes down to > workflow. Does your SCM allow other people to easily and without-pain > track your upstream subsystem tree changes and 'rebase' as necessary for > their patch series you make improvements..? If we are talking about > say, a single standalone driver being developed against mainline, then > sure using a SCM like CVS or SVN is perfectly acceptable when you push > to someone upstream like gregkh or akpm via email patch attachments. > > However, if we are talking about a subsystem maintainer workflow that > requires many different people to track your subsystem tree for their > own drivers and new feature bits, not being able to keep local branches > for these level developers makes their life excruciatingly painful and > unpleasent as they attempt to pull new upstream changes, especially when > the speed of new upstream development is moving quickly. This rule > applys even more when said subsystem has a greater scope within the > source tree in question. > > Anyways, if we are going to compare SCM distributed vs. centralized > workflow in terms of kernel projects, lets please at least compare > apples to apples here. > > Best, > > --nab I've been trying to keep my 2 cents out of this, as I am merely an SCST user. Both of you have valid criticisms; the choice of SCM is not one of them. It is nit-picking at best, especially when SCST could switch to git easily if they so desired. Seven years ago, would you be pushing BitKeeper? Kind Regards, Mark Deneen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
