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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE development with git
From:       "Tim Beaulen" <tbscope () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-07-11 14:41:01
Message-ID: dd1e9b170707110741u70c8104dl87f3131ca5b53996 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 7/11/07, Paolo Capriotti <p.capriotti@gmail.com> wrote:
> Git encourages a development model where many branches are created, features
> are developed out of the main line, and then merged back to the master
> branch. This is something which is hardly possible with svn (and impossible,
> if one wants to keep some of the branches private), but IMHO highly
> desirable for many KDE projects.

And if I remember it correctly, this was one of the main reasons for
the switch from cvs to svn.

I don't understand the "hardly possible" bit as it is very easy to
create branches and merge them back. In fact, this is done a lot in
KDE.
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