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by Joe on Monday 21/Apr/2008, @11:08

It's serious, OMG plasma's totally broken events like this that make me yearn for the kde devs to adopt git. Stuff like this could be easily branched off, hacked on, broken all to heck, have all the pieces put back together and merged back to the mainline without most users of svn having their plasma hosed for a couple of weeks. Supposedly that is what playground is for, but perhaps svn isn't as accommodating of this style of development?

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Re: Breakage
by Aaron Seigo on Monday 21/Apr/2008, @11:21

playground is for new things. branches/ is for, well, branched development.

unfortunately, svn rather sucks in this regard. the WoC stuff was done in a branch, the merge clobbered a number of commits that happened during/around the merge time and it wasn't until after the merge that it was at all easy to test all the components against the changes (it's the components that broke, really; ergo the whole "porting" thing)

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Re: Breakage
by Ménard Alexis on Monday 21/Apr/2008, @11:27

Some devs use git locally, but merging is still annoying and boring especially because there are many stuff committed in libplasma and kdebase/plasma. Putting the new API in the trunk allows all the community to port faster applets than plasma team can do alone. Svn is for sure not accommodating for this kind of stuff but i'm quite happy by what we had just after the end of plasma sprint.

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Re: Breakage
by Ian Monroe on Monday 21/Apr/2008, @19:49

Fully agree. :) SVN is easy to use and scales up well for large projects like KDE. But it needs to be better at branches or it'll find itself with the technology trash heap next to CVS.

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