Re: gnome-shell moving to Git

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le lundi 09 février 2009 à 18:09 -0500, Owen Taylor a écrit :
>  - Click the "clone this repository" button in the GNOME Shell project
>    name the new repository '<username>-features' (? just <username> ?)
I'm not sure it's really useful to separate branches by username. I for
example commited my work to Gitorious so that people can possibly work
on it too, if they like. For this, I just have to add them as commiters
to give them required permissions. I think it often makes sense to
create a branch for a feature rather than for an user.

Else your step-by-step explanation is nice, that can really help new
contributors.


> Wow, wonder what was wrong with 'EDITOR=editor; export EDITOR'
> in /etc/profile rather than hacking every package. There's probably
> some
> obscure rational embedded in the Debian policy...
> 
> I can just make git-bz use 'editor' in preference to 'vi' if it exists,
> in combination with a nasty comment :-)
I have no idea of the rationale behind Debian's choice. Anyway, the trick you propose looks good - feel free to be as rude as you want in the comment!