[LLVMdev] Howdy + GIT

[Tim Northover]

> Even though git could be used in the same way as svn, why migrate just to
> re-create the current workflow? Doesn't make too much sense to me. A
> migration to git would have to include some other benefit, not just be
> change for the sake of it.

I think our routine workflow suffers quite a bit from the svn
emphasis. Sending text patches is all very well from a portability
point, but it makes applying someone else's commits rather annoying
(particularly for commit, but even for testing):

1. Download the patch.
2. Remember where you put it (~/Downloads, ~, ~/Documents -- depends
on exactly what program downloaded it) and what the name of the file
was.
3. Either look or randomly guess what -pN you need to apply it.
4. Check things.
5. Open the blasted file again to recover the commit message
(frequently weirdly indented because that's what "git show" produces).
Or make one up.
6. Commit with that via copy/paste.
7. Hope you didn't forget to "git/svn add" the new test before committing.

This is all you can do in svn (as far as I'm aware), but it's
something git has solutions for. Some unified "git fetch" available
for this would be very useful for example, even if we do decide a
world without monotonic numbers is too scary for us.

Tim.