On 2010-11-25, Andi Gutmans <a...@zend.com> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre....@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 5:47 PM > > To: PHP internals > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] git anyone? > > > > We have moved not too long ago and for what I see it gave some opportunities > > to many of us to see what are the other tools on the market, git and github > > in > > particular. I think 99% of the active developers here are on github or use > > git in > > one way or another. > > > > I think git could be a great help, maintaining multiple branches will be > > easier. It > > will also be very useful to develop new complex features requiring a longer > > development period. SVN works fine but merging is very limited and buggy, > > maintaining a branch while syncing changes from trunk/other branches is a > > very frustrating experiences. > > > > Please not I'm not requesting to do it now and here, only trying to get a > > feeling/poll about git usage. > > I personally doubt moving will have a material positive impact on the > project. I wouldn't particularly mind if all the issues were addressed > but I wouldn't hold my breath that it will be game changing. It may be > better to invest the effort elsewhere.
I disagree here, actually. It's much easier to handle feature isolation using git, as you can do these in separate branches -- perhaps not even on the canonical repo! -- and later merge them in when they are ready. Additionally, keeping multiple branches up-to-date is much, much simpler. With ZF, I've found that merging in even months worth of changes from the ZF1 trunk to ZF2 master is often a matter of hours; with SVN, this process was so daunting, we simply wouldn't do it in favor of creating new branches and starting over. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | matt...@zend.com Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
