RE: [PHP-DEV] git anyone?
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:45:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] git anyone? | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 5:47 PM
> To: PHP internals
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] git anyone?
>
> hi,
>
> We have moved not too long ago and for what I see it gave some opportunities
> to many of us to see what are the other tools on the market, git and github in
> particular. I think 99% of the active developers here are on github or use git in
> one way or another.
>
> I think git could be a great help, maintaining multiple branches will be easier. It
> will also be very useful to develop new complex features requiring a longer
> development period. SVN works fine but merging is very limited and buggy,
> maintaining a branch while syncing changes from trunk/other branches is a
> very frustrating experiences.
>
> Please not I'm not requesting to do it now and here, only trying to get a
> feeling/poll about git usage.
I personally doubt moving will have a material positive impact on the project. I wouldn't
particularly mind if all the issues were addressed but I wouldn't hold my breath that it will
be game changing. It may be better to invest the effort elsewhere.
Andi