[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Git development moved to github

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> David Herrmann [2015-06-02 13:06 +0200]:
>>> Our preferred way to send future patches is "the github way". This
>>> means sending pull-requests to the github repo. Furthermore, all
>>> feature patches should go through pull-requests and should get
>>> reviewed pre-commit. This applies to everyone. Exceptions are
>>> non-controversial patches like typos and obvious bug-fixes.
>>
>> Makes sense. On the operational level, should we use the
>> "automatically merge" feature of git hub once approving? On the plus
>> side it's very convenient, but you'll get one "Merge" commit for every
>> PR (which is often just one commit), so we'd almost double the entries
>> in "git log". Or can github be told to not do that?
>>
>> Merging manually is quite a bit of work, as you have to add a new
>> remote every time, fetch that, and pull from it. But it does keep a
>> cleaner git log history.
>
> Use github.
>
> With the decision to move to github, we need to accept the github
> model and with that accept possible cosmetic issues.

Have you guys found a way to preserve the comments on pull requests?
I don't see
it as a cosmetic issue but this was rather the reason I moved projects
away from github
in the past.

As a maintainer of other projects I need to point to a discussion on a
single patch
and be able to see the previous iterations of a patch.  And also check what was
the conclusion on a patch set that was accepted in the repository.
It's also nice
for developers to check if there was any attempt already in
implementing some feature
and it was denied by any reason.

Last time I checked this is impossible with github because you lose
the comments on
each patch when a second version arrives.

Of course this is a non-issue for several projects in github which
don't have proper commit
review. It's not the case of systemd and it seems it's even the reason
why you are moving
to github.  So I'm just curious if anything changed in this regard or
you solved it in another
way.

thanks

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Lucas De Marchi