From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 09:55:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Workflow for templates?
Message-ID: <F9FF8107FA8F4CBD8C3D87B907BAE9E3@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <bbc40624-f95d-48c9-83ed-fd70430226a4@zcs>

From: "Enrico Weigelt" <enrico.weigelt@vnc.biz> Sent: Saturday, November
10, 2012 7:13 AM

I've picked out Enrico's key points.

>> Maybe I should try to explain the problem in terms of repository
>> hierarchy. Let's assume, there is this hierarchy of repositories:
>
> Let's talk about branches instead - repos are just containers for
> branches (and tags, etc).

This is often the key point that requires the 'new mindset'. Most folk
use/used the directory heirarchy (subtle distinction with the .git
'repo' directory heirarchy to be noted) as a way of separating ownership
between groups. They find it very hard to undo the old mindset and use
branches _instead of_ directories for the different group
configurations.

Teaching git is easy. Undoing the old mindset is hard hard hard. [it's
still hard]


> By the way: you really should use non-conflicting tag names (eg.
> adding some <site>+"/" or <site>+"-" prefix), otherwise you'll
> easiy run into conflicts, because per default retrieved and local
> tags will all be in some namespace
>          Better consider tag names to be really global.

Definitely.

Apologies if it's a bit of bike-shedding.

Philip