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On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de> wrote:
> John Griessen wrote:
>
>> Fossil has a unifying feature for a project like gEDA/PCB with a
>> hand full of developers:
>>
> It is exotic as in "hardly-anyone-uses-it". By contrast, git is rather
> ubiquitous these days. There is literature galore. The spectrum ranges
> from the official manual to "Git: Version Control for Everyone" among
> the 20+ books dedicated to it on amazon.com. Want to build that hot
> open source project yourself everybody and their aunt is talking
> about? Chances are that would clone it from a git repo.
>
> I'd rather not switch to an exotic component in the infrastructure of
> the project. Geda has already hurt itself enough by going for an less
> than well known scripting language.

I usually agree with this logic but this is a case where the less known
alternative might actually be worth it (and I'm a git enthusiast myself).
It might help in several ways:

  * some people really hate git and to be fair the commands and options
    you have to learn are confusing and not easily memorable at first
    (though they make great sense ultimately)

  * Having everyone get all the branches automatically with one command
    would likely make them a lot more accessible.  It sounds stupid but
    if someone has to go do a separate clone to get a branch its just
    much less likely to actually happen

  * Getting rid of rebase is good, particularly if you hope to integrate
    lots of small branches like we're talking about, since that's when rebase
    ends up destroying working (pre-interaction) commits

  * I like the idea of integrated bts/wiki as well, though for sure the
    existing wiki is good and probably its not easy to switch it over.

Britton