Re: monotone/git (was hello...)

[Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>]

Chris Larson wrote:
> On 10/4/07, Michael Krelin <hacker@klever.net> wrote:
>>> Well luckily I am not an ignorant git-fanboy :) Could you shortly point
>>> out to me the reasons why you think monotone is favorable over git for
>>> use with openembedded ? I will admit right away that my limitation with
>>> SCMs in large projects is more than limited. So i can only speak of
>>> my user experience with git vs my experience with monotone and i prefer
>>> the first.
>> Well, 1st - OE folks are used to monotone now. That's primary reason.
>> The second primary reason is that I know of some developers who seem to
>> dislike git. And if we're talking about technical reason, one I can
>> think of is that there's no non-ssh transport allowing push, which
>> complicates administration of our "central" repository.
> 
> That's not correct.  You can push to a git repository over http/webdav
> to an apache2 server.

Theoretically.  My experience is that it often fails, at least with
the kernel.  But maybe this is just a git-tree maintenance issue for
the kernel devs.  Chris is correct, however, that the feature is
present in git.
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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