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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Interest in using git with lyx svn
From:       Andre Poenitz <andre.poenitz () mathematik ! tu-chemnitz ! de>
Date:       2009-03-06 18:27:08
Message-ID: 20090306182708.GA5139 () tu-chemnitz ! de
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:52:41PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > the same way as LyX svn trunk is currently treated. You can push your
> > work pretty much in the same chunks as you would today.
> 
> but the flamed point was not about _pushing_. rather it was about commit
> identification and further orientation (hash vs commit number).

I got used to using 'gitk' for 'orientation'...
 
> > _On top of that_ you _can_ have branches that are far, far easier to
> > handle than svn branches. I'd even argue that (to come back on this
> > Friday's topic) some of the past losses like the XML branch would
> > not have occured as switching between branches is fast and cheap
> > and people are more likely to "have a quick look".
> 
> arrrgh ... branches switching is not fast and cheap! i got so frustrated
> with the perpetual waiting for recompilations because somebody touch
> this and that header that i started using more git trees in the same way as
> in the old days of svn.

*shrug* other experience then. But right, there's nothing wrong with
having several full checkouts, too.

[Apart from that, LyX compile times are still above average as far as I
can tell]

Andre'
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