[fpc-other] Git & SVN

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On 2017-05-23 17:33, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2017-05-23 21:10, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
>> Now, in Git, this idiot can do:
> 
> Plus that idiot could start the fork and his branch without needing to
> bother the FPC team. With SVN he has to ask them to add him to the
> SubVersion repo user list, create a branch, and manage his user
> permissions for that branch.
> 

Yes but forking is a double edged fork (sword)...
You can fork so easily that no one actually works together and then you 
have 218982 versons of emacs floating about that no one actually uses, 
because so many forks splits up the userbase and then everyone just ends 
up using a central version of emacs, the main copy

> Git = KISS is this case. ;-)
> 

Everyone making thousands of forks and not working together is not 
simpler, it's just a different way

I like the ability to fork, as I am sick of developers not allowing me 
to make some change, and I go off and work myself on some fork but.. 
it's also anti-social and leaves projects in so many forks that no one 
works together. Everyone forks github repos and then you cannot search 
the damn code on github, as forks are not searchable - so no one can 
find good updated code, you just see the main git repo, which, is kind 
of like having a central svn repo! but with thousands of stale forks???