Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:50553 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 16119 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2010 17:39:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2010 17:39:13 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.114.211.68 unknown Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:39:13 -0500 Received: from [217.114.211.68] ([217.114.211.68:8560] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 59/66-16484-14F9EEC4 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:39:13 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <4CEE7230.9040002@lsces.co.uk> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (SunOS) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Posted-By: 217.114.211.68 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] git anyone? From: dsp@php.net (David Soria Parra) On 2010-11-25, Herman Radtke wrote: >>> Developers can already wall themselves off now with the github mirror. >> >> >> No. People. Stop saying that. It simply isn't true. >> >> The 'github mirror' hasn't been active for 6months. >> It got killed because our box simply couldn't handle the job. > > My mistake. The github mirror really isn't the point thought. The > point is that anyone can use git-svn to make a git repo of PHP source > and isolate themselves. Nope you cannot. We forbid total git-svn clones as they put too much traffic on the svn server. You can run a shallow clone, but either way you will have a hard time merging and using all the nice DVCS features together when you use git-svn. git-svn is more a local svn with local feature branches than a full blown git.