Re: [Texmacs-dev] Multiple "git svn" mirrors of texmacs on github, problems...?

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

> On 20. Jun 2018, at 22:35, ederag <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, June 20, 2018 20:28:08 Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
>> One reason I see is that in this way we have a full backup of the main svn 
>> TeXmacs repo, which could be useful something should happen to savannah 
>> (which happened in the past…). 
>> 
>> Anyway one of the point of using git is that there is no “blessed” git 
>> repository. For TeXmacs the only official place is the svn repo, the git 
>> mirrors are just convenient for development but, as far as I see, pull 
>> requests should be integrated in svn by people allowed to do it.
>> 
>> I maintain my svn mirror for myself and for convenience for other people. In 
>> this way I can have multiple branches easily and test various 
>> configurations, but all the serious stuff reach the svn sooner or later. So 
>> as long as all the git mirrors fetch from svn there is no confusion 
>> possible. The only bad thing it could happen is that one mirror is not 
>> updated often enough.
> 
> 
> This is true for the developer side.
> 
> But on the contributor side,
> there are now 3 repos to check for issues or pull requests,
> before filing one.
> 
> Ederag
> 

None of these repos is considered official as far as I know. The main 
developers works on savannah and there is already an official bug tracker there 
plenty of bugs awaiting willful contributors. 

In my opinion it is interesting to send a pull request only to git repos owned 
by people who can actually commit the change into svn. And it make sense to 
choose the person you want to talk at. This is one of the point of the git 
philosophy, as far as I understand from Torvald’s talks on the subject. 

So I do not see this as confusion. If you want to reach direcly the main 
developers (some of which do not use git) you need anyway to format a proper 
patch against the current svn repository (or any sufficiently up to date git 
mirror) and send it via mail or on savannah.

For contributors which do not need to maintain branches then I would suggest 
just to use the subversion repository, there is no gain in using git. 

Personally I update a working tree from subversion to have the last changes and 
also I maintain a local mirrored git repo for all the more heavyweight 
branching and merging. This works just fine for the kind of development TeXmacs 
experiences.
 

Best
Max