I was actually going to bring this up the other day, and ask if there was going to be a switch to git. I completely agree that mediawiki development could benefit greatly from the way git handles branches.
-Adam On Jun 28, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Brian wrote: > With git you wouldn't have to compromise the stability of > MediaWiki's head > revision. You could review patches while they are only committed to > the > patch-writers own local git repository. When you are ready to accept > the > patch into trunk you do. > > A major benefit of this model is that you could have the head > revision be > defined as the code that is running live on the sites. > > git makes it very easy to switch from svn and has lots of svn- > compatibility > features, including automatically importing your svn repositories, > etc.. It > has a lot of other benefits as well such as speed (owing in part to > the > history being on your machine) but the true benefit for MediaWiki is > the > distributed development model. There is no reason to sacrifice the > sanctity > of your head just because someone *thinks* their code is ready. > > /Brian _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
