[oe] monotone/git (was hello...)

Chris Larson clarson at kergoth.com
Thu Oct 4 18:36:07 UTC 2007


On 10/4/07, Michael Krelin <hacker at klever.net> wrote:
> > Well luckily I am not an ignorant git-fanboy :) Could you shortly point
> > out to me the reasons why you think monotone is favorable over git for
> > use with openembedded ? I will admit right away that my limitation with
> > SCMs in large projects is more than limited. So i can only speak of
> > my user experience with git vs my experience with monotone and i prefer
> > the first.
>
> Well, 1st - OE folks are used to monotone now. That's primary reason.
> The second primary reason is that I know of some developers who seem to
> dislike git. And if we're talking about technical reason, one I can
> think of is that there's no non-ssh transport allowing push, which
> complicates administration of our "central" repository.

That's not correct.  You can push to a git repository over http/webdav
to an apache2 server.
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Chris Larson - clarson at kergoth dot com
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