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Re: GitHub pull requests

From: Paul Hammant <paul_at_hammant.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 16:02:39 +0100

The gaping hole in Subversion's capability, 11 years on from when
GitHub launched with it, and 13 or so years from Google
operational-izing the functional equivalent for themselves is
patch-review in a way that each is re-creatable in working-copy by
reviewers from the command line. GitHub made this as a Pull-Requests
from forks that are essentially short lived feature branches. They
later talked of "GitHub Flow" (not to be confused with GitFlow) as a
branching model. Perforce couldn't do SLFBs so Google implemented it
as a patch management and review system that was effectively the same.
The UI was called Mondrian (Guido tech-talked about that himself in
2006). Opensource-land received Rietveld and the Gerrit in the image
of Mondrian, and indeed Subversion was supported at the outset.

This needs to be built in to Subversion IMO, and an extension of
Julian's shelve tech. No web-ui, just sve.ee compatibility.

I'm saying this because dogfooding requires minimal comparable features.

-ph
Received on 2019-06-20 17:02:51 CEST

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