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Re: Moving to git
- From: Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana dot gcc at googlemail dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- Cc: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, "gcc at gnu dot org" <gcc at gnu dot org>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:39:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: Moving to git
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.gcc@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Teams following a different model could use a separate repo shared by
>>> those developers, not the gcc.gnu.org one. It's much easier to do that
>>> with git.
>>
>> Yes you are right they sure can, but one of the reasons that teams are
>> doing their development on a feature branch is so that they can obtain
>> feedback and collaborate with others in the community.
>
> It is also much easier for others to pull from foreign repositories with
> git, so this isn't a severe downside.
It isn't a severe downside as long as people aren't prevented from
discussing / recording such patches on gcc-patches because said
branches are hosted in a "foreign repository".
regards
Ramana
>
> Andreas.
>
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