[fpc-other] Git & SVN

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 23.05.2017 um 21:56 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> On 2017-05-23 20:33, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
>> Now, how the actual process would look with the FPC team, that's hard to
>> define at this point. But the tools are there for it.
> 
> Exactly what I was getting at.
> 
> 
>> Was this a proper answer, or I was beating around the bush in your views?
>> :)
> 
> Finally somebody that understands distributed version control, and how Git could be used. You gave a
> very good answer indeed. Too many people (and companies) are so stead fast in the ways of a
> client/server version control system - like SubVersion. They then wrongly (or not ideal) force those
> ideas onto Git usage. Hence the reason I said it takes a bit or "rethinking the problem", and in the
> end everything becomes quite clear.
> 
> For those interested, read the many blobs about how the Linux Kernel development is managed. 

FPC is a compiler and not an OS kernel, so would like to see such blog posts from big compilers:
e.g. gcc, clang