[VTK ARB] Git-SVN

[Berk Geveci]

Yes and no :-) If your history is linear (no git style merges), you
can push it back to svn. If you have a non-linear history because of
merges, you have to first linearize it. I will send some more
information about what this means.

-berk

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Steve Pieper <pieper at bwh.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Paolo:
>
> One question I have on the mixed svn-git approach: does the revision history
> from the git archive get moved back into the svn archive along with the
> code?
>
> -Steve
>
> Will Schroeder wrote:
>>
>> Paolo-
>>
>> This is great., I can already see that I am going to learn a lot. Let's
>> leave some time for discussion, and then schedule a meeting in the near
>> future to discuss this and other matters.
>>
>> Will
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Paolo Quadrani <p.quadrani at cineca.it
>> <mailto:p.quadrani at cineca.it>> wrote:
>>
>>    Dear all,
>>    attached you can find a document that make a comparison between Git
>>    and SVN.
>>
>>    For new version of our MAF framework we decided to use SVN as main
>>    repository for code sharing and then each developer if want can have
>>    its own Git local repository to manage its own history for its local
>>    code changes, and maintain changes also if it has no network
>> connection.
>>
>>    Just a comment on code contribution: if someone wants to contribute
>>    with its code, I think that you cannot accept code without
>>    documentation (in doxygen style for example) and the related test
>>    class that prove that the code works.
>>
>>    I can propose also that submitting code could be done through a web
>>    interface that present a form to be filled with fundamental
>>    information that the code must have and you decide what is important
>>    for you and for validating the code. This means that you filter at
>>    begin the code and accept only valid code and don't loose time to
>>    review tons of classes sent via mail.
>>    There should be also some pre checks for checking that coding
>>    conventions are respected. For MAF we have some python scripts that
>>    check that classes have the documentation inside and it is written
>>    in doxygen style, scripts that check that code is written respecting
>>    the coding convention and so on.
>>
>>    Cheers
>>
>>    Paolo Quadrani
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