[Paraview-developers] git questions

[Brad King]

pat marion wrote:
> As we transition to git, are we going to have any lessons on git best
> practices?

We will be writing a Wiki page on how to deal with VTK- and PV-specific
workflow and such.  It will have links to other Git documentation but
we do not need yet-another-git-tutorial.

> How will pre-commit checks be handled?

Some will be converted to test-time checks rather than vcs-enforced rules.
Others will be checked by the "central" server at push time (update hook).
The latter form will be used for avoiding "broken" history but not for
things like "std::".

> Will we be notified of commit errors when we make local commits,
> rather than waiting until we push to the server?

Not by default.  We will probably provide some kind of helper script
to enable via ".git/hooks/pre-commit" for developers that want the
local-commit-time help.  There is no way to enforce it by default.

-Brad