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Re: Git
« Reply #15, on January 8th, 2011, 11:11 AM »
I've long thought that Git and Mercurial seem like they should work better when there's a bigger team. With just two contributors it seems a little unnecessary.
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Re: Git
« Reply #16, on January 8th, 2011, 11:15 AM »
I can see it being beneficial when there's a proper release cycle, along with 2 people who have some radically different ideas because then branching makes sense. Plus you guys do seek to expand, don't you?
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Re: Git
« Reply #17, on January 8th, 2011, 11:37 AM »
Yeah, I suppose there is that way actually, that you branch, add a new feature then merge it back in.

I don't just want to up and move the repo to Mercurial or Git (yeah, I find myself leaning to Mercurial but for no reason other than it has a cool name, there's nothing in it from my perspective) without a good reason since transitions are not good and do have a tendency to drop meta data at times.

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Re: Git
« Reply #18, on January 8th, 2011, 12:04 PM »
I am not forcing anyone, just a personal advice. And the transition from SVN to Git was flawless for me, github has a simple enter your SVN repository URL type thingy that imports the repository within 20 minutes.

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Re: Git
« Reply #19, on January 8th, 2011, 12:09 PM »
Did it keep the entire revision history?

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Re: Git
« Reply #21, on January 8th, 2011, 12:14 PM »
What I might do is experiment with importing the Wedge repo into either a Git or Mercurial container on RepositoryHosting (you can't just magically convert one to the other, but you can export and import and RH supports all three) just to get a feel for it.

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Re: Git
« Reply #22, on January 8th, 2011, 12:16 PM »
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Quote from Dragooon on January 8th, 2011, 11:15 AM
I can see it being beneficial when there's a proper release cycle, along with 2 people who have some radically different ideas because then branching makes sense. Plus you guys do seek to expand, don't you?
No expansion plans for now. Of course we'll "take" more devs in the future, once the codebase is stable and clean enough to be manipulated by others (hopefully). However there'll be a probably long transition period where we're personally review each of the patches before we merge them into the trunk. Obviously it depends on how much exhausted we are at that point. But right now, I don't see us as taking any proper developers in 2011. Maybe guest developers, for specific features, clearly outlined in the source code.

Yeah Pete, why not try. But I'm quite used to SVN by now and don't really see a point to use anything else. As for code conflicts, it's usually due to me not correctly updating my copy before I commit it.

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Re: Git
« Reply #23, on January 8th, 2011, 05:10 PM »
One feature I loved about Github was that you can actually comment on a commit's change's line and initiate a full fledged discussion on it.

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Re: Git
« Reply #24, on January 8th, 2011, 11:53 PM »
Sounds like the threads here - New Revs, New Revs - Comments
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Re: Git
« Reply #25, on January 8th, 2011, 11:59 PM »
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