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["Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Apr 08, Pieter Lenaerts [e-type AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
> please report on the issues below, from the p4_replacement wiki page.
> 
> afaik git was specifically designed for the cherrypicking stuff, I don't
> know about any repeated merges back and forth between branches but I
> suspect it will do great (haven't tried, don't really know)
> 
> problems seem to be, and please correct me:
> * directory based access control

What do you mean?  That it does have this and it's a problem, or it doesn't
have this and that's a problem?  "Directory based access control" is listed
on the p4_replacement wiki page as a desired feature, and git has it.  I
for one prefer it because it simplifies administration.

Regardless, git can do permissioning at the branch, directory, and file
level at a minimum, and there's some discussion in the general docs about
doing it with server-side hook configuration as well.  So it has several
options to mix and match.

> * scalibility: it is madness to let all our devs have the full history
> of the grimoire on their hd's

FWIW, Tony reports the entire P4 repository and its history currently
consumes ~3.5G of disk.

> could you elaborate on the server options? how do they fix their pushes
> and pulls to a central repository? we need this done well for the
> grimoire.

There is a daemon to handle pushes if you run it centralized.

Probably best for some people to just install it and try it out and see
what happens for real.

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