[gdal-dev] sandbox access for non-commiters

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Antonio Valentino
<antonio.valentino at tiscali.it> wrote:
> Hi Etienne,
>
> Il 06/10/2011 22:01, Etienne Tourigny ha scritto:
>> Thanks for the information.  It seems that using git-svn is more
>> suited for working locally, and then commiting back to the svn repos,
>> or as an easy way to stay in-sync with the main repos (like you do).
>>
>
> IMHO the trick is using a separate branch for developing new features in
> order to be able to use git freely.
>
> When the job is done one should just rebase (locally) on the branch in
> sync with svn and use git-svn to push hanges back into svn.
>

GOTCHA! That sounds quite reasonable.

> The weak point in the workflow is the initial cloning of the svn repo.
>

I guess if you were to clone the repo from a recent revision (not  the
whole changeset), you would speed things up considerably.  Is there a
way to do that?


>> For now, I will stick to straight svn (or straight git) because I
>> don't know enough about git and don't want to break things!
>>
>> thanks, Etienne
>
>
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> Antonio Valentino
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