[svlug] Preventing a Revision Control Flamewar

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 01:49:48AM -0700:
> Quoting Brian J. Tarricone (bjt23 at cornell.edu):
> > 
> > No, but there's certainly a little marginal extra work involved.  In
> > git parlance, you have to commit and then push every time you want to
> > check something in centrally.  Of course, a simple script would fix
> > that.
> 
> {shrug}   Trivia.   The main point is that the DVCS model is a proper
> superset of the centralised one, a point I mention because people
> freuently misunderstand it and erroneously think centralised development
> is impossible or difficult with a DVCS.

In git, you can make one repository push to another
in a hook.  So if you always do "git commit && git
push origin" to work in a centralized way, you can
add the push command to .git/hooks/post-commit.

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