[drupal-devel] PHPTemplate hits core ... finally

[Gordon Heydon]

Hello,

Marcus Rueckert wrote:

>On 2005-05-05 10:01:10 +1000, Gordon Heydon wrote:
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>>Svn suffers from other issues, and AFAIK the it will not allow commits to
>>other from one person to be applied by another.
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>svn diff > patch ?
>you can even do patches with new files in it. (cvs add somefile -> you
>need write access)
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No this will mean that the patch will be applies by the submitter. and 
none of the original details will be keep. Distributed SVM systems allow 
patches to be applies by another user to the old core repository and 
retail the entire history, and accountibility.

>>So in the situation of drupal where we have a few lieutenants that commit
>>patches to core, the commits are marked as coming from them, and not the
>>original person.
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>how would this differ from other SCM? it is always the maintainer who
>merges the change, who is mentioned as author. 
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Yes it is the maintainer, but the changeset is accredited to the 
original author. See bitkeeper and how Linus worked. He was the only one 
the could commit to his tree but, credit was given to the orginal user.

>>If you take a distributed source management system like bitkeeper, arch,
>>bazaar, git and others you can have the lieutenants commit the patch to the
>>core, by getting the change set from the original developer's repository or
>>via other means and the history, comments and user data is retained.
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>SVN can give you both. centralized repository combined with the power
>of distributed development. how?
>svk.
>as mentioned by chris later in the thread.
>i currently work on a howto about using svk for drupal development.
>i hope i can finish it in the next days to show it here.
>even without svk i think svn would be worth the move.
>atomic commits. versioned directories. easy tagging, many operations
>work offline. much friendly UI. ...
>hope this helps
>darix
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It is not a distributed SVM, it is a centralised and requires access to 
the server to commit any changes.

Gordon.