From: Justin Leung <jleung@redback.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:45:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Verilog/ASIC development support is insufficient in git , help!
Message-ID: <4828904B.6080708@redback.com>
In-Reply-To: <F975216F-9B61-41FF-A7FE-3D7EF09D137B@sb.org>


Thanks Kevin,

   I think i better give svn another serious look . 

but then, my impression from the rest of the people is that p4 and svn 
are not the ultimate tools for hardware development either .

I guess we just do not have the perfect tool for asic dev yet .

 Justin

Kevin Ballard wrote:
> But they come at an expense - no more linear revision numbers, more 
> complex commands, etc. You can't have it both ways.
>
> You could always use a main SVN repo and then use git-svn to maintain 
> your own private git repos, do all the code syncing you want there, 
> and then push it back to SVN when you want to send it back to the main 
> build stream. If you go this route, be careful to maintain a linear 
> history on the branch that tracks the SVN repo, as SVN cannot handle 
> merges the way git can. You'll want to either do rebasing or squashed 
> merges (to avoid multiple parents).
>
> -Kevin Ballard