On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Erik de Bruin <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote:
> Om, > > Those emails hardly give a reliable time table... > > One of the reasons this sudden move frustrates me so endlessly is that > I literally was ready to commit the FlexJS in FalconJx code this > morning and move on to actual payed work. Instead I ended up spending > my day trying to figure out git (and in the process be amazed by how > many problems this will introduce and how few problems - if any - it > will solve) and trying to prepare for my first > commit/push/rebase/branch. > > I'll shut up now, as everyone else seems very happy with their new toy. > > EdB > > > You think I am happy with the timing? We were in the middle of a frigging release! We have one RC out and we are stuck. This is one of the times we have to bite the bullet and move on. Complaing (too much ;-) ) will only suck more oxygen. All I want to do is finish the migration and move on. I am sure you want that as well. Thanks, Om > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Om <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> 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 > >> > > > > -- > Ix Multimedia Software > > Jan Luykenstraat 27 > 3521 VB Utrecht > > T. 06-51952295 > I. www.ixsoftware.nl >
