[Scummvm-devel] Switching to Git (was Re: Broken Sword 2.5)

Max Horn max at quendi.de
Sat Aug 7 21:08:36 CEST 2010


Am 07.08.2010 um 19:26 schrieb Bertrand Augereau:
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> A few force updates are acceptable (I think) if you notify all the users they will have to rebase their branches.

If we had a few users, then maybe. But we are talking about a public project here, and I am sure dozens if not hundreds of people would start cloning our repository as soon as it went live. I'd be very reluctant to break that needlessly.

> The advantage is that everybody would begin to use git now, pusjhng on "trunk" and when somebody refactors "trunk" for having a better history, their commits will still apply with rebase, cherry-pick or am.
> I think this is a good tradeof for improving "time-to-market" for git at scummvm :)

I am not so sure...


Cheers,
Max



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