> > And more importantly: I don't see what this does for the project that > needed to > be done so desperately that we couldn't get a couple of days advance > warning so we could at least commit our outstanding changes and finish > the release(s) that were in progress? > > Who is this question directed towards? You should probably talk to INFRA about the timing. The Flex PMC has no control over when these things happen. The ticket was open for 6 months. We did have a few emails in the past few weeks about this impending migration [1], [2]
Thanks, Om [1] http://markmail.org/message/vyzzbumvwfcyzey2 [2] http://markmail.org/message/h7licye6pw4qnrbv > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Michael A. Labriola > <labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > > Erik, > > > >>What advantage is having a local repo to having a local working copy? > >>It seems to me that all it does is add an extra layer between me and my > co-contributors. I need to 'commit' to my local repo and then 'push' to get > it out to the world, where before only a >'commit' was needed... > > > > It will seem that way at first. Don't expect your first couple of weeks > to be happy, but I promise it gets better. The big advantage is having > local branching, roll back, staging and the ability to work completely > offline. The thing is that it's a totally different workflow so it's hard > to compare git versus svn accurately. > > > > My git workflow is constant committing and branching locally (all of > which are nearly 0 overhead in git). It allows me to task switch very > easily, to try things out and roll back when they don't work. I can be in > the middle of a task, stash the half-baked code, switch over to do a bug > fix, and then switch back and resume my state. > > > > I make potentially dozens if not hundreds of branches in the course of a > day when I am really coding. Out of all of those branches and commits, I > perhaps push 1 or 2 up to the outside world. Its more about local code > organization and local workspace management and then sharing the daily or > hourly results of those efforts. > > > > I can promise this will suck for you at first. You are asking all of the > question I did and I frankly hated git and was frustrated with it for > weeks. Now I strongly dislike when someone makes me use SVN. It feels > clunky and inelegant. > > > > Mike > > > > > > -- > Ix Multimedia Software > > Jan Luykenstraat 27 > 3521 VB Utrecht > > T. 06-51952295 > I. www.ixsoftware.nl >
