New VCS Choice; SCM SIG

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:33:17PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
 
> Right but we're talking at cross-purposes.  What I mean is, are we using
> these now with the fedora-extras and fedora-core dist-cvs?  If so, what
> are the commands you're running to do that?
> 
> Although we talk about branches with dist-cvs, there's no cvs branches
> in the repository that I'm aware of.  So I'm wondering if Karel has some
> commands that he's using now or if this is a "If we use real branches in
> the next SCM, it'll give us the ability to do operation Xyz in a better
> way."

Well, there's nothing to really prevent someone from using a branch for
private development.  The buildsys won't build off of it, but you can
commit stuff to a branch if you'd like.  And of course, there's also the
tagging we _do_ use.  Which is similar to a CVS branch.  You can actually
do the merge command using tag names too.

I can see some use cases for using branching with git, simply because
branches are trivial to create and work with.

josh