[Insight-developers] Flavors of git hosting sites

[Bill Lorensen]

Sounds good, makes sense,

Bill

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 07/22/2010 02:21 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>> and VTK seems to be hosted at Kitware
>>
>> and ctk seems to be using github.
>>
>> Are there advantages of one over the other?
>> Or maybe it really doesn't matter?
>
> Actually it can be hosted at any number of sites simultaneously.
> Generally one place is considered the endorsed "official" repo.
> In the case of VTK, we keep that one at vtk.org but we also push
> a read-only mirror to github.com and gitorious.org.  That allows
> anyone to fork on one of those sites and get their own public
> repository to which they can publish changes.  Ultimately though
> there has to be one repository from which release tarballs are
> built and that dashboard clients test.
>
> The advantage of hosting our own repository as the place for
> all developers to push changes is that we can use an update
> hook to do server-enforced checks.  This helps automate and
> enforce clean history.  At first I plan to do the same for ITK
> as we've done for VTK.  When we start splitting ITK into modules
> and having many repositories we may change to something else.
>
> -Brad
>