[OSM-dev] git.openstreetmap.org

[Chris Browet]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:28, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> On 21/04/10 09:47, Chris Browet wrote:
>
>  I've seen that the rails_port has (quite silently) moved to a OSM owned
>> git repository. I'm a bit surprised I didn't hear more of that (or maybe
>> I wasn't listening at the right place). But whatever...
>>
>
> It only happened about 24 hours ago! Give us a chance and we'll get all the
> details sorted out and make some announcements...


Sorry, just that I saw you already deleted the branch from svn, which (I
assume) could upset the guys running from svn. So I assumed some kind of
announcement was done somewhere...

>
>
>  The actual question is what is the status of this git repo. Is this more
>> or less private or open to the other OSM projects?
>>
>
> That repo is the master repo for the live site and is only likely to be
> open to a limited number of committers. The nature of a DVCS is that it
> doesn't need to be open to everybody as people can just fork and then ask
> for changes to be pulled in to the live site.
>
> If you're asking whether other projects can have repos on that server then
> we may consider it for some other core tools but I'd like to let what we
> have settle down a bit first - if nothing else I need to get used to git.
>
> I don't see it becoming the kind of vast dumping ground for all and sundry
> that the svn repo is - once again that isn't really the spirit of a DVCS
> anyway.


Ok.

>
>
>  Is there (or do plan to) put a gitweb or similar on it?
>>
>
> I take you didn't actually look at http://git.openstreetmap.org/ then?
>

Yes I did. I receive a really nice "It works!" ;-)

- Chris -
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