From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Leung Subject: Re: Verilog/ASIC development support is insufficient in git , help! Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:45:31 -0700 Message-ID: <4828904B.6080708@redback.com> References: <83EE186A7AF140179C6C73B367471EC7@justinuTop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, justin0927@hotmail.com To: Kevin Ballard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon May 12 20:46:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jvd2U-0007Bn-6n for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 20:46:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756227AbYELSpc (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 14:45:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756220AbYELSpc (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 14:45:32 -0400 Received: from prattle.redback.com ([155.53.12.9]:36747 "EHLO prattle.redback.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755980AbYELSpb (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 14:45:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prattle.redback.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718A4A52D90; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prattle.redback.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (prattle [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25505-02; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [155.53.72.61] (havant.redback.com [155.53.72.61]) by prattle.redback.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58880A52D8E; Mon, 12 May 2008 11:45:31 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at redback.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thanks Kevin, I think i better give svn another serious look . but then, my impression from the rest of the people is that p4 and svn are not the ultimate tools for hardware development either . I guess we just do not have the perfect tool for asic dev yet . Justin Kevin Ballard wrote: > But they come at an expense - no more linear revision numbers, more > complex commands, etc. You can't have it both ways. > > You could always use a main SVN repo and then use git-svn to maintain > your own private git repos, do all the code syncing you want there, > and then push it back to SVN when you want to send it back to the main > build stream. If you go this route, be careful to maintain a linear > history on the branch that tracks the SVN repo, as SVN cannot handle > merges the way git can. You'll want to either do rebasing or squashed > merges (to avoid multiple parents). > > -Kevin Ballard