[sf-perl] Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System (fwd)

Paul Makepeace Paul.Makepeace at realprogrammers.com
Mon Jan 5 08:46:27 PST 2009


On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Matthew Lanier <matt at lanier.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Rich Morin wrote:
>
>> Git and GitHub are having an enormous effect on the nature of
>> the open source development process.  The notion of the "core"
>> committers, for instance, pretty much disappears.
>
> what is it about this technology that is disruptive to the FOSS development
> process that has evolved over the last many years?

With a centralized SCM you need access control to prevent random
entities committing junk. With git/distributed SCM where there is no
centralized repo you simply pull changesets from people you trust (and
they pull from those they trust etc). Thus the notion and need for a
"commit bit" disappears.

>
> m@
>
> --
>
> Matthew D. P. K. Strelchun-Lanier
> matt at lanier.org
> http://www.bearlywornpacifica.com
> _______________________________________________
> SanFrancisco-pm mailing list
> SanFrancisco-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm
>


More information about the SanFrancisco-pm mailing list