Re: git [was: Bug 455400]

[thomas harding laposte net (Thomas Harding)]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:43:32AM +0530, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
> Hi, I have been following this thread and from what I understand,
> there are two people working on documentation. You are trying to keep
> sync with each other's patches because they have not been merged into
> the dia SVN repository yet. All this would have been easy if dia was
> in a distributed system like git or darcs, where people can directly
> send patches to each other without waiting to commit to the main
> repository.

That's it

> git-svn actually allows you to maintain your own stuff in git, and
> still work with the main SVN repository. Would you consider using
> git-svn? I am aware the learning curve involved is pretty steep, and
> your focus is on getting documentation done, and not wade through
> software manuals. But do take a look and if you think its worth the
> trouble, you could try it out.

Currently, all my work on the patch is done, so I will take a look on
that later :)

Regards,
-- 
Thomas Harding