[mythtv] Any point in suggesting a switch to git...

[Paul Gardiner]

Ed W wrote:
> Either you know all about "git"and "get it" or you don't, so I won't 
> spend too long pushing a rock up-hill.  The basic use case is that at 
> least "I" maintain a private fork of mythtv with some local patches and 
> a DVCS allows me to easily maintain my own patch set locally whilst 
> still tracking trunk.  Personally I also believe it encourages 
> development and innovation because it's much easier to develop locally, 
> then prepare a patchset and submit it...

Just to make one more little prod up the hill, git has huge advantages
even for one-person projects. One tends to keep many experimental
branches, each split into many small commits that can be easily mixed
and matched. It's a completely different world from cvs/svn usage.

Paul.