[vlc-devel] Re: VLC Git Tree.

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

Well, sorry for those of you who received the mail twice. I haven't  
planned to sent this mail to the vlc-devel. But it is not so bad that  
it went public as it is informative too :)

On 13 avr. 07, at 02:10, Pierre d'Herbemont wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks to Antoine (dionoea) we now have a git mirror of the svn tree.
>
> See:
> http://wiki.videolan.org/Git
>
> I was wondering if any of the student were planning to use git  
> rather than a svn branch. If so please keep me posted, I'll try to  
> set up something better than current implementation.
>
> The main advantage you'll have using Git, is that you will be able  
> to keep sync-ed with the latest trunk changes & history easily.
>
> Using a svn has its advantage too: it is the tool used by all VLC  
> commiters. Moreover it is probably simpler to use than git,  
> especially if you are used to cvs. But as a svn branch will be used  
> for your work, the merge process will get more complicated: keeping  
> in sync with the trunk will be harder.
>
> (being sync-ed with trunk is certainly not an obligation but I  
> think using latest sources has more advantage than the contrary)
>
> Also your work history might even be lost during the final merge  
> process into the trunk.
>
> Well, whatever you think keep me posted ;)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pierre.
>
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