[Nix-dev] Nixpkgs and NixOS moved to GitHub

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> skribis:

> On 21/06/12 17:07, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>>> A hybrid policy is of course also possible.  I.e. uncontroversial changes (such
>>> as minor package upgrades in Nixpkgs) can go directly into the master, while
>>> other things should be done in a branch and submitted for review.  This of
>>> course depends on people exercising good judgment :-)
>> 
>> That sounds good to me.  Perhaps those who had SVN access could get Git
>> access too, as was suggested.  The main issue would be excessive merge
>> commits when the history would have otherwise been linear.
>
> Eh, I don't see the connection between those two sentences :-)

If many can commit, it seems likely that we’ll end up with many merge commits.
Whereas, if (say) you’re the only one, the history will be linear (but
of course, nobody would want that!).

Ludo’.