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Re: Git Vs. Svn for a project which *must* distribute binaries too.

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JBJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Date
Jun 4, 2007, 22:30 UTC
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<20070604223003.GJ6528@ca-server1.us.oracle.com>
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:33:18PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (That said, gits own 'pu' branch ends up jumping around, and it hasn't 
> caused all that much confusion, so maybe I'm overstating even that human 
> confusion)
	It survives because it is well-known.  Everyone expects it to
break.  ocfs2 has an "ALL" branch that is everything we have working,
sort of a "test this bleeding edge" thing.  It gets rebased all the
time, and everyone knows that they can't trust it to update linearly.
Other developers have similar things in their repositories.
Joel
-- 
"What no boss of a programmer can ever understand is that a programmer
 is working when he's staring out of the window"
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Joel Becker
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Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
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  1. Bryan ChildsJun 4, 2007
  2. Julian PhillipsJun 4, 2007
  3. Theodore TsoJun 4, 2007
  4. Johannes SchindelinJun 4, 2007
  5. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2007
  6. Bryan ChildsJun 4, 2007
  7. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2007
  8. Thomas GlanzmannJun 4, 2007
  9. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2007
  10. Olivier GalibertJun 4, 2007
  11. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2007
  12. Joel BeckerJun 4, 2007
  13. Theodore TsoJun 5, 2007
  14. Johannes SchindelinJun 5, 2007
  15. Martin LanghoffJun 4, 2007
  16. Daniel BarkalowJun 4, 2007
  17. Linus TorvaldsJun 5, 2007
  18. david@lang.hmJun 5, 2007
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  20. Jakub NarebskiJun 4, 2007
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