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Really using git
17 points by byronsalty 6111 days ago | 8 comments
After watching Linus' git talk (youtube "linus git") I've realized that while using git as we are still rocks svn,cvs,etc, we aren't really using git as intended because we are still mostly following the "central repo" model.

What would be really awesome would be if PG would create his repo also (readonly of course) that we'd pull from to create anarki over from a common history. This way even if we're working in our own repos/branches, we could all be working from the same starting point.

People would see PG's repo as the "stable". Anarki would be the "dev" repo sort of. Others should create their own readonly experimental, public repos with all of the things talked about here - new syntax, refactors/reorganization, etc.



4 points by nex3 6111 days ago | link

When I first set up a git repo, it was my own read-only one: http://git.nex-3.com/arc.git. Shortly before I announced it, though, ambition had set up the original Subversion version of the wiki. Since that seemed like a cool idea, I set up a parallel Git wiki.

Eventually, I just stopped pulling into my repo. The wiki pretty much had everything I wanted, and more or less nothing I didn't.

However, I could definitely see other folks creating their own repos if they want to do some major experimentation (although using a branch of the wiki might work just as well). In particular, I totally agree that it would be awesome if PG would expose his changes as Git commits, if just to make the arcn.tar merging process easier.

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2 points by CatDancer 6111 days ago | link

it would be awesome if PG would expose his changes as Git commits

If someone is looking for a small project to take on, that sounds like an easy and useful task to volunteer for.

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6 points by byronsalty 6111 days ago | link

Well the real nice part would be PG himself using git and doing diffs against other repos to see what's festering in the community.

Right now the forum seems to be the only what of contributing patches to arc and this seems ripe for having things lost. (And who wants to bring up the same patch twice if it went unnoticed the first time).

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5 points by nex3 6110 days ago | link

Well, taking arcn.tar and merging it isn't that hard - I did it for arc1 and will probably continue to do so. It would just be nice if we could have more granular official patches.

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6 points by vrk 6111 days ago | link

Talk about ultimate hacker language: every hacker has his own version. Not a bad idea to try, though.

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2 points by ryantmulligan 6111 days ago | link

http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=3109

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1 point by byronsalty 6111 days ago | link

Sorry about the dup post - I blame it on blackberry.

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1 point by lojic 6108 days ago | link

No problem, I'm sure the forum code has:

  (merge-post posts 3089 3090)
:)

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