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Date:      Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:00:41 -0700
From:      Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org>
To:        Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, mdf@freebsd.org,  Ali Mashtizadeh <mashtizadeh@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,  Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Ulrich Sp=F6rlein <uqs@spoerlein.net> wrot=
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...
>> Having a project adopted way of sharing work in progress will be a step
>> forward. Yes, I'm aware of perforce, it's to hard to use and wasn't
>> designed to share and test ideas. I think guthub can be a very good
>> candidate (but AFAIK it won't allow hosting of FreeBSD repo for not paid
>> accounts). I'm not suggesting switching to git as VCS, but using github
>> UI for communication and tracking not yet commited or work in progress
>> changes. In ideal world developers will merge patches from each other
>> increasing chance of a good code to survive and get commited later.
>> Currently we have patches hosted at people.freebsd.org, as attachments
>> on maillists and PRs -- almost all stale or outdated. Key difference of
>> github is that original patch author will be aware of you using it,
>> potentially updating and improving it. Others can continue supporting
>> the patch if original author abandons it, etc. Sending patches is too
>> complicated and counterproductive comparing to github.
>
> Yes, I fully agree, that's why https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-head
> exists today, but hasn't been advertised yet (I need to write
> documentation and can't force myself to do it :(
>
> Feel free to start using it! Together with the git-svn metadata that you
> can grab from repos.freebsd.your.org it makes a solid platform for
> working on FreeBSD code.

+1 for git.

There's also  git://gitorious.org/freebsd/freebsd.git which mirrors
head and stable/releng/release branches.

--Artem



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