From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [213.199.154.10] (helo=mail24-dub-R.bigfish.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IdVqa-0005Xa-22 for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:54:56 +0200 Received: from mail24-dub (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail24-dub-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5668A1489C72 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:49:31 +0000 (UTC) X-BigFish: VP X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: OrigIP: 160.33.66.75;Service: EHS Received: by mail24-dub (MessageSwitch) id 1191523771239620_27425; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:49:31 +0000 (UCT) Received: from mail8.fw-sd.sony.com (mail8.fw-sd.sony.com [160.33.66.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail24-dub.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB0E57007A for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.sgo.in.sel.sony.com (mail1.sgo.in.sel.sony.com [43.130.1.111]) by mail8.fw-sd.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l94InStZ015296 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:49:28 GMT Received: from USSDIXIM01.am.sony.com (ussdixim01.am.sony.com [43.130.140.33]) by mail1.sgo.in.sel.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l94InSv5017985 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2007 18:49:28 GMT Received: from ussdixms03.am.sony.com ([43.130.140.23]) by USSDIXIM01.am.sony.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:49:28 -0700 Received: from [43.135.148.58] ([43.135.148.58]) by ussdixms03.am.sony.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:49:27 -0700 Message-ID: <470535D5.8070307@am.sony.com> Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:49:57 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <1191494488.2516.34.camel@toontown> <4704CC05.40206@klever.net> <1191502502.2516.39.camel@toontown> <4704EAE3.8050702@klever.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Oct 2007 18:49:27.0950 (UTC) FILETIME=[4A8B8AE0:01C806B7] Subject: Re: monotone/git (was hello...) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:54:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Larson wrote: > On 10/4/07, Michael Krelin wrote: >>> Well luckily I am not an ignorant git-fanboy :) Could you shortly point >>> out to me the reasons why you think monotone is favorable over git for >>> use with openembedded ? I will admit right away that my limitation with >>> SCMs in large projects is more than limited. So i can only speak of >>> my user experience with git vs my experience with monotone and i prefer >>> the first. >> Well, 1st - OE folks are used to monotone now. That's primary reason. >> The second primary reason is that I know of some developers who seem to >> dislike git. And if we're talking about technical reason, one I can >> think of is that there's no non-ssh transport allowing push, which >> complicates administration of our "central" repository. > > That's not correct. You can push to a git repository over http/webdav > to an apache2 server. Theoretically. My experience is that it often fails, at least with the kernel. But maybe this is just a git-tree maintenance issue for the kernel devs. Chris is correct, however, that the feature is present in git. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America =============================