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

[Bill Williamson]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
> 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.


It would have made the entire JYA .21 VDPAU backport situation...
different.  Better or worse, depending on how you view things.

Worse for some because git encorages things like that due to how it works.
Better for some because git encorages things like that due to how it works.