[mythtv] Any point in suggesting a switch to git...

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/14/2009 06:10 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Bill Williamson at 14/12/09 09:51 did gyre and gimble:
>   
>>> Just to make one more little prod up the hill, git has huge advantages
>>> even for one-person projects. One tends to keep many experimental
>>> branches, each split into many small commits that can be easily mixed
>>> and matched. It's a completely different world from cvs/svn usage.
>>>       
>> It would have made the entire JYA .21 VDPAU backport situation...
>> different.  Better or worse, depending on how you view things.
>>
>> Worse for some because git encorages things like that due to how it works.
>> Better for some because git encorages things like that due to how it works.
>>     
>
> :)
>
> On the same vein, I think with git, the -fixes branches would be easier
> to maintain too. git cherry-pick is ace :) I'm not sure how much real
> "effort" goes into the -fixes commit

Does git do the testing for you?  :)  That's where I've spent 99% of the
time on the -fixes backport commits.

Mike