Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:06:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Ken Moffat wrote: >>>The great benefit of git is in branches - in svn, a branch is "cast >>> in stone" and is a PITA. In git, branches are just pointers. If >>> you want to maintain a stable branch, you can ch

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 11:06:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > The great benefit of git is in branches - in svn, a branch is "cast > > in stone" and is a PITA. In git, branches are just pointers. If > > you want to maintain a stable branch, you can cherry-pick specific > >

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread William Harrington
On Mar 9, 2014, at 10:46 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > The big benefit of svn is increasing decimal revision numbers. I saw a while back this for a pre-commit hook. What you could end up with is a pre-commit hook which would include in the comment a revision number, with an algo not involving looki

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > - Forwarded message from Ken Moffat - > > #?^€^ ! I managed to send the reply to blfs instead of lfs. > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:16:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> Merging is generally not needed by me, but that may be the reason Armin >> wants to move to gi

Re: [lfs-dev] [blfs-dev] LFS and Git]

2014-03-09 Thread Ken Moffat
- Forwarded message from Ken Moffat - #?^€^ ! I managed to send the reply to blfs instead of lfs. On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 09:16:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Merging is generally not needed by me, but that may be the reason Armin > wants to move to git. I can't remember the las