Some git advocacy

[Pierre M.]

Hello,

I think this talk is worth a look if you have time : Linus Torvalds on git.
It is about distributed development. There are interesting claims on contributing, Web of Trust, merging...

May be the best gift Linus has made to the world so far is not Linux but git. It seems very good at opening a project : if I understand well, it broadens the scope of potential contributors (of code, of doc...) by permitting everybody to publish patches and the high level maintainers to pull worthy patches and merge them.

Pierre M.

edit : typo : broden -> broaden

[chrisl]

Linus Torvalds is quite aggressive in his selling of 'git' but I agree if there were time to implement this system it seems that it would help hard-pressed developers to keep better control of their projects.
How easy or difficult is it, do you think, to put into place?

[aln_cms]

I have to say I was impresses by his insight into what was needed and what wasn't needed. I must say though, someone with Linus's clout should not be voicing such negative reviews about ongoing OS projects, i.e. SVN. Bad mouth proprietary stuff all you like, but SVN works for some people.  Perhaps he should have tried to educate rather than ridicule.

Having said all that it does seem that GIT is the way to go for projects such as cmsms.

Alan

[tsw]

ted has actually been checking git for us for some time now.. the change might happen in near future...

[Pierre M.]

Hello again,

the situation has matured and there is a *very* good book about git :
http://progit.org/book/
Happy reading

BTW now I understand wel done distributed version control I understand better why good versioning is not that simple to implement : it would have to be has strong as Git and to keep friendly with CMSms average End Users.

Pierre M.