Fwd: Current use of GitHub

[David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>]

Not sure if all the heavy git users are on infrastructure-dev...

david jencks

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> From: David Blevins <da...@gmail.com>
> Date: April 3, 2011 10:17:01 PM PDT
> To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
> Subject: Fwd: Current use of GitHub
> Reply-To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
> 
> I know a few of us use Git for Apache work.  Feel encouraged to lend some feedback to infra.
> 
> -David
> 
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>> Resent-From: <db...@visi.com>
>> From: "Gav..." <ga...@16degrees.com.au>
>> Date: April 2, 2011 11:45:10 PM PDT
>> To: <in...@apache.org>
>> Subject: Current use of GitHub
>> Reply-To: infrastructure-dev@apache.org
>> 
>> I'm trying to understand the _current_ workflows of those ASF committers
>> using Git and how the ASF GitHub mirrors tie into that - if at all.
>> 
>> A fair few projects requested ASF git mirrors and also requested mirrors of
>> that on GitHub (that 2nd request is now standard with the 1st)
>> 
>> So far , from projects I've browsed on GitHub, I see a few forks here and
>> there and a few Pull requests here and there.
>> That is where it gets fuzzy for me. Obviously, no-one can actually pull in
>> those pull requests into the Apache/$project repo mirror, so
>> how are committers applying those pull requests? Are they pulling them into
>> their own copies of the mirror, converting them into a patch
>> that svn understands and then applying, if so, how? If not, how else?
>> 
>> Also, apart from Github, how else are Git only users providing patches to
>> projects, which patch programs are in use, and of those which
>> are most used by those projects/committers that need to apply them.
>> 
>> For those of you that are committers and have direct access to svn, but are
>> preferring to use Git before then committing your work to svn, 
>> what is your workflow and tools used (whether or not it involves GitHub)
>> 
>> No deviating into what could happen or what would be a good idea please yet,
>> this is just a survey on what people are currently actually
>> doing to incorporate Git into their workflows and how we then get those
>> applied.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Gav...
>> 
>> 
>> 
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