[development] A streamlined way to develop core patches

[Gordon Heydon]

Hi



On 08/12/2008, at 1:17 AM, Jakob Petsovits <jpetso at gmx.at> wrote:

> On Sunday, 7. December 2008, Gordon Heydon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I also have a git repository of core, and I also have every
>> contributed modules and themes in there own git repositories as well.
>>
>> The problem that I found was that gitweb falls over with that many
>> repositories. So over christmas I am going to be writing up a
>> replacement for gitweb which will scale to cover all the projects in
>> contrib.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> I am going to split out the repository browser out so that other
>> modules can register repositories and then browser to them.
>>
>> I will see how I go. All going well I will drop a line on  
>> development.
>
> I think it would be great if you tried that as improvement of
> (or replacement for) versioncontrol_project.
> But of course, how you want to do it is totally up to you :P
>
> Wishes,
>  Jakob (nearly having completed the 5.x-2.0 stuff for Version  
> Control API)

I may take a look but it but I have a feeling I will need more than  
what is available in the version control api

Plus I want to make it pretty light weight so that adding this to a  
site will have no impact

Gordon