>On 5/30/2013 7:56 PM, Johnny Stenback wrote: >> [TL;DR, I think we need to embrace git in addition to hg for >> Firefox/Gecko hacking, what do you think?] > >Personally, the more I use git, the more I hate it. But I also see that >other people love it...
jcramner++ :-) >> * Developers can use git branches. They just work, >> and they're a good alternative to patch queues. > >I can't see how they are a good alternative. With patch queues, I can >maintain a complex refactoring in a patch queue containing dozens of >smallish patches. In particular, I can easily realize I made a mistake in >patch 3 while working on patch 21 and make sure that the fix ends up in >patch 3; I don't see how that is easily achievable in git branches. I'm still totally at sea regarding the git development model - hg queues make a lot of sense to me. hg qqueue is very handy and I think covers a lot of what people think they need git for. I'm sure I'm missing things, but I keep accidentally adding files in git patches. >> * Git works well with Github, even though we're not switching >> to Github as the ultimate source of truth (more on that below). > >Outside of the community size, I personally can't see any benefits to >Github for Mozilla; if all you want is community outreach, you pretty much >just need a read-only git mirror on Github, which we already have. I honestly don't see any serious advantages other than "some projects are using it anyways". -- Randell Jesup, Mozilla Corp remove ".news" for personal email _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
