[Geany-devel] ANN: Configurable Build Menu Alpha in SVN

[Thomas Martitz]

Enrico Tröger schrieb:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:17:10 +0200, Enrico wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:55:20 +0200, Frank wrote:
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>>> Am Montag, den 13.07.2009, 22:34 +1000 schrieb Lex Trotman:
>>>       
>>>>         
>>>>         Alright, I did a svn up in the branch, at it's still at
>>>> r3952. And my patch is against that revision.
>>>>         Could it be local changes on your side?
>>>>
>>>> Most probably, as I said its still under active development, but at
>>>> the moment I have a persistent crash so I don't want to commit a
>>>> more broken program than is already there :-(
>>>>         
>>> Don't be afraid to do some more commits. Also I had good experience
>>> developing using a local git branch so I keep track on my changes as
>>> well as I can patch/merge patches coming in. 
>>>       
>> In case of the build-system branch, using a local git repository
>> doesn't make sense. The idea of the branch is to constantly work on
>> this code with all the advantages of a source code management system
>> like SVN (even though some of you don't like it) and especially having
>> the history. When using a local git repo and then commit one big chunk
>> of changes, the whole idea of the branch is destroyed.
>>     
>
> I forgot to mention, committing such big chunks makes it also way
> more complicate to review the changes which we need to do at some
> point. And reviewing a super big maybe 100K or more patch is awful. So,
> small and logical structured commits would help us all most, I think.
>
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>   

You can also commit each git commit seperately. Actually, that's being 
done by default (with git svn).

Best regards.