Re: Creating something like increasing revision numbers

From: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
Date: Oct 19, 2009, 01:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20091019014256.GE17397@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910182122100.21739@xanadu.home>

On So, 18 Okt 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> However, given what you want to do is really to stick to the SVN way of 
> doing things, then why don't you simply stay with SVN?  Git works in a

I fear so.

> fundamentally different way than SVN, and if you aren't willing/able to 
> change your workflow away from the SVN way then there is really not much 
> for you to gain by switching to Git.

Well, as I said in the beginning, the metadata handling of svn is a pain in huge repositories like ours with thousands of subdirectories of subdirs of subdirs and 80k+ files. That was the reason I thought about git.

But I am coming to the conclusion that I will use git for my other projects, but not for that one.

Best wishes

Norbert

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Norbert Preining                                        Associate Professor
JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   preining@jaist.ac.jp
Vienna University of Technology                               preining@logic.at
Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force)                    preining@debian.org
gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094      fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76  A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
GLASSEL (n.)
A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which
is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing
their suitcases with after the holiday.
			--- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff