[LLVMdev] git Status Update?

[David A. Greene]

Bill Wendling <wendling at apple.com> writes:

>>> It's my understanding that the upcoming new version of SVN will have
>>> off-line commits available. 
>> 
>> Frankly, that's the least important feature git has.
>> 
> And yet it's the first one that people point out. :-)

It is?  I think you may be confusing offline operation with private
branches.  They are not the same.

Some quick searching reveals that one or two SVN developers may be
considering developing a distributed SVN.  That would indeed be welcome
and would alleviate a lot of issues.  Unfortunately I can't find
anything offficialish that indicates the idea is being persued.  It also
looks to be two years away, at least, given some rather hand-wavey
predictions of when stuff could happen, if approved.

Admittedly, this was a very quick search.  If you have pointers, that
would be very helpful.

>> Not true.  SCM support means you get to use all sorts of nice merge
>> tools to handle the sync.  Applying patches sucks.
>> 
> I use "svn merge -c <rev#> ..." with great efficacy. And it has a nice
> way to resolve conflicts.

You use svn merge -c in a working directory merging from one branch to
another.  Don't confuse an SVN working directory or an SVN branch with a
repository.

> The LLVM development style is to do as much on ToT as possible with
> little branching or mirroring needed. This seems to be at odds with
> your development style, which is that you keep a tree of your own with
> your changes there. 

It's not "my" development style.  Plenty of places do exactly this.  How
else can an organization keep sane control over its source?

> So there is then conflict. I doubt that things are going to change any
> time soon.

Too bad.

                             -Dave