git review

[d.ostrovsky at idaia.de]

Quoting Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Bjoern Michaelsen
>>
>> Thinking a bit about this, another possibility would be to do with  
>> git-review
>> as we do with other external stuff:
>> Downloading and installing a local copy in "./download". That would  
>> ensure it
>> to be universally available and be up to date.
>
> I know that michael disagree with me on that, but I prefer dev-tools
> to be in ...  dev-tools.git
> one can install it as he see fit. and you get the version you
> want/need regardless where you are in the source tree...

Well to put it in dev-tool is much less painfull as to put it elsewhere.
Note this tool must be in your PATH! For all branches.
And even if you switch the branches and no matter what your current  
directory is,
you must be able to say:
git review --dry-run

that it.
But who is the person who will put it in dev-tools once and update it  
all the time?
(Last time i contributed to git-review was today morning).
But even if that person (not me) or some cron jobs continuously  
synchronize it, the user must still update it.

So the user must now periodically update dev-tool to get the fresh version
of git-review? But then what is the difference to say git pull  
dev-tools/git-review or

sudo apt-get update upgrade (place here your distro command)
or (*)
sudo pip install git-review
sudo pip install --upgrade git-review
sudo pip uninstall git-review

(*) http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/index.html

Regards
David