[NeXus-tech] transition to GIT for definitions and documentation

[Pete Jemian]

Makes sense.
On Sep 3, 2013 8:08 AM, "Wintersberger, Eugen" <eugen.wintersberger at desy.de>
wrote:

> > Once you start using git that becomes the way you work.
> >
> > Tobias
>
> Thats the point ;)
>
> >
> > ________________________________________
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> nexus-tech-bounces at nexusformat.org] on behalf of Pete Jemian [
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> > Sent: 03 September 2013 13:26
> > To: nexus-tech at nexusformat.org
> > Subject: Re: [NeXus-tech] transition to GIT for definitions and
> documentation
> >
> > Why do you need to branch?
>
> What I wanted to do is to include the 3-layer model I usually use to
> explain Nexus into the existing documentation. What I recognized is that
> I had to change a lot of things in the introduction of the manual in
> order to get my stuff into it. But I wanted to keep the current version
> as a kind of stable tree. The easiest way to achieve this is to open a
> new branch and merge back once you are done with the work. By publishing
> the branch everyone can have a look on it before it is merged into the
> original code.
>
> I worked with git-svn before but it has several restrictions and I am
> usually more afraid to mess things up in the SVN repository when using
> it. git-svn is something you may use if there is no other way - but at
> least to my opinion it is not a really good solution.
>
> >
> > On 9/3/2013 7:06 AM, Wintersberger, Eugen wrote:
> > > Hi folks
> > >    I was just wondering if it would be possible to migrate the
> repository
> > > holding the definitions and the documentation from SVN to GIT.
> > > I tried to work with the SVN repository several times, however,
> > > branching is a pain with SVN. Besides, GIT could be used offline which
> > > is quite comfortable when working while traveling by train ;).
> > > I do not know how difficult it would be to make the transition to GIT
> > > (at least the current version of Trac works with GIT).
> > > What is your opinion about moving to GIT?
> > >
> > > regards
> > >    Eugen
> > >
> > >
> > >
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