[vtk-developers] CVS->Git Transition Plan

[Brad King]

Denis Barbier wrote:
> Thanks a lot to Kitware for switching to a DVCS, it will be much
> easier to follow development and test patches.

That's the goal!

> There is no VTK 5.6 branch in the repository, is it
>    http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;h=0c23794
> or will a newer branch be created soon?

All release branches (old and current) were merged into master
artificially:

  http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd322e97

You can begin new release work from here

  http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commitdiff;h=0c237949

using the command

  git checkout -b mywork 0c237949

but you won't be able to push it yet.  Instead you can use
'git format-patch' to export the commits and send them to
Dave Partyka by email.  (We will start publishing on github
and gitorious again soon.)

After things settle over the next few days we will switch
to the branchy workflow described in the "git help workflows"
man page.  At that point the 'master' branch will be the
place that the release is prepared.  All new work will begin
from it whether it is meant for the next release or not.
Then you won't have to mess sha1 hashes to start work.

-Brad