Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:50829 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81269 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2010 16:35:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Dec 2010 16:35:44 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=larry@garfieldtech.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=larry@garfieldtech.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain garfieldtech.com from 76.96.30.16 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: larry@garfieldtech.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 76.96.30.16 qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net Received: from [76.96.30.16] ([76.96.30.16:33471] helo=qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 37/81-07252-FDAC7FC4 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:35:44 -0500 Received: from omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id eFaa1f0030vp7WLA1Gbhlr; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:35:41 +0000 Received: from earth.ufp ([98.220.236.211]) by omta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id eGbf1f00Y4aLjBW8RGbgKz; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:35:40 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by earth.ufp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692A2D7A51 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:35:39 -0600 (CST) Received: from earth.ufp ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (earth.ufp [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4EVy0ZaADFFn for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:35:39 -0600 (CST) Received: from garfield.ad.palantir.net (unknown [209.41.114.202]) by earth.ufp (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3AF90D7A50 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:35:39 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4CF7CADA.2030501@garfieldtech.com> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:35:38 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <1291216564.27624.43.camel@guybrush> <201012020044.26416.larry@garfieldtech.com> <4CF762EC.9050207@lsces.co.uk> <4CF76EA5.8050403@lsces.co.uk> <4CF7841A.5020702@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4CF7841A.5020702@lsces.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] git anyone? From: larry@garfieldtech.com ("larry@garfieldtech.com") On 12/2/10 5:33 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Again you are missing the point here. CVS/SVN works nicely for managing > a master code base. DVCS does not naturally support that, and this is a > major area that needs to be managed by any project switching so that you > CAN manage a master codebase. I used to think that; I had no idea how you had an authoritative repo when everyone had a repo. Then I actually started working with Git, and the answer became obvious: You agree on one. You agree on a particular branch in a particular repo (eg, the one hosted on kernel.org / drupal.org / php.net) is the canonical branch, possibly restrict who can push to that (or not, but I think that would help PHP by having a release manager named early who can merge micro-branches), and document it. Git doesn't technologically force an answer on you; you get to define one socially. That actually works surprisingly well in practice in a functional project. (If PHP can't come to such an agreement in practice, that's a social problem, not a tool problem.) --Larry Garfield