On 26 March 2013 18:11, Tom Prince <tom.pri...@ualberta.net> wrote: > Adi Roiban <a...@roiban.ro> writes: > >> I now see that Tom Prince has already created git branches on GitHub >> for the ticket he is reviewing. Many thanks! > > My repo is actually currently updated via a post-commit > hook. Eventually, that will change to point at twisted/twisted on > github, but I want to run it for a bit against an unofficial repo first.
>> I have already started creating git branches on GitHub for all my >> patched for Twisted. I found it much pleasant to send a "live patch" >> URL rather than a static attached diff file. > > One reason this is frowned on, is that the code then only exists in an > external resource that may disappear or change without notice. That > means that the work can be lost. > > There have been a number of code hosting sites that have disappeared, > and that would take any contributions hosted only there with them. > > https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/report/16 has a bunch of old tickets that > mostly with some code, that would potentially been lost. I understand this and I am not requesting to move the code to GitHub. I don't think that this is a god idea. I was only asking about GitHub mirrors. The main request for this thread was to have a single source repo mirror for Twisted in GitHub. Now there are at least 2. Now there are also 2 unrelated branches in GitHub for the same twisted, my original branch and Tom's mirror. >> I understand that moving from SVN to GIT is not easy and if core >> developers can create and share SVN branches there is no big >> inconvenience. > > I don't know if there is a desire to move to git. In any case, before > any such migration can occur. Namely, updating all the hooks and tools > to work with whatever vcs is being switched to. My impression is that, > at least at one point, bzr was a more likely choice of distributed vcs > to switch to. > I am not requesting to move to Git. I was just expressing my frustration that attaching patch files to Trac is not fun, and working with read-only SVN is not fun, and following out-of-line review comments is not fun. -- Adi Roiban _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
