From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: Git Vs. Svn for a project which *must* distribute binaries too. Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:30:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20070604223003.GJ6528@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <5971b1ba0706040448i6e166031od1212192a549c4a9@mail.gmail.com> <5971b1ba0706040838nc9ea7c7h54a57d4235d53bcf@mail.gmail.com> <20070604175751.GL19935@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <20070604212121.GA31852@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Olivier Galibert , Thomas Glanzmann , Bryan Childs , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jun 05 00:30:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HvL4M-00034C-G6 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:30:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758857AbXFDWa0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:30:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755260AbXFDWaZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:30:25 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:37982 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755179AbXFDWaW (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 18:30:22 -0400 Received: from rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.51]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l54MU5ED032292; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:30:05 -0500 Received: from ca-server1.us.oracle.com (ca-server1.us.oracle.com [139.185.48.5]) by rgmsgw01.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id l54MU3fm011607 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:30:04 -0600 Received: from jlbec by ca-server1.us.oracle.com with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HvL3r-0001sW-I5; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:30:03 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:33:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (That said, gits own 'pu' branch ends up jumping around, and it hasn't > caused all that much confusion, so maybe I'm overstating even that human > confusion) It survives because it is well-known. Everyone expects it to break. ocfs2 has an "ALL" branch that is everything we have working, sort of a "test this bleeding edge" thing. It gets rebased all the time, and everyone knows that they can't trust it to update linearly. Other developers have similar things in their repositories. Joel -- "What no boss of a programmer can ever understand is that a programmer is working when he's staring out of the window" - With apologies to Burton Rascoe Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127