From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: Newbie grief Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 00:17:01 +0200 Message-ID: <4FA060DD.9030208@op5.se> References: <4F9F128C.5020304@palm.com> <201204302331.q3UNVo7o032303@no.baka.org> <4F9F3919.6060805@palm.com> <20120501111415.GD5769@thunk.org> <4FA02830.3040407@palm.com> <86havzoi8h.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4FA04D02.6090702@palm.com> <86mx5rmx32.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4FA055D0.7040102@palm.com> <86aa1rmvhb.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4FA05E9F.9090709@palm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" , Sitaram Chamarty , Ted Ts'o , Seth Robertson , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Rich Pixley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 02 00:17:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SPLNh-0002ME-6V for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 00:17:13 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754096Ab2EAWRH (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2012 18:17:07 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com ([209.85.217.174]:59060 "EHLO mail-lb0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752976Ab2EAWRG (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2012 18:17:06 -0400 Received: by lbbgm6 with SMTP id gm6so7899lbb.19 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 15:17:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=zOnmuH1CF1tjXnuxfFb6+sp05fbJz8tpygBE37XAOcY=; b=Duju2GrIwNvDlPwSwX2zb8xdNI8ZBmbyMKpFa0do2tJjA9hBzkkTf8deDcHkvxTIQz Nlyxd3TZSRgBOTUJM7AIXsCJ2oljCVCnW4AP/+ZU8O5qQsosa84YXQ9ouXO+7dulTubW 5lKh1Ol/84krDRxOa4o29MAj8hvk5QE/heiNwVpGA/WqU6n0JLRhjuCXyICA5aY0i2/T mKlqorylZjcj00N5ReT4YGkIfCf1H8FSWSqzA3VvjqQ2WAcl9xgqo0iHyFcFbKKdML0r ziSKI+rXGM32Jc9AwUbHso1PvxdWAT7B4APPeSsHV9hVpty1zeUACQqLp7sMLEtiVyTY b/tA== Received: by 10.152.112.97 with SMTP id ip1mr24629364lab.31.1335910624843; Tue, 01 May 2012 15:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vix.int.op5.se (c80-217-218-226.bredband.comhem.se. [80.217.218.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c3sm26254231lbg.6.2012.05.01.15.17.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 01 May 2012 15:17:03 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120424 Thunderbird/12.0 In-Reply-To: <4FA05E9F.9090709@palm.com> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnuBhxZ/bcqeicgK2z6yUf5c2KxUwy3p/ShdCZmHV36LPyaloIzlRQ4TFm8VtkT/xjyGhN2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 05/02/2012 12:07 AM, Rich Pixley wrote: > On 5/1/12 14:39 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> Rich> My particular situation is that I'm developing a "feature" >> and to do that, I need to be testing on multiple machines. >> Tens of them. >> >> I think you're now confusing git with a deploy system. That is >> also something that will lead you to unnecessary grief. Pick a >> deploy system that's not git, and integrate git with it. > > No, not a deploy system. You use a deploy system to set up something > like multiple server http farms. What I'm doing is more akin to > porting the same piece of software to 20 different operating system > distributions. I'm not "deploying" the source code. I'm developing > it. > > Thank you for acknowledging that git is a poor match for this > scenario, though. > Git works well for that if you put hooks in place to trigger builds and test-runs on the testservers though. We do exactly that, and I doubt we're the only ones who do automated testing of every push. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.