Short HOWTO on using git for Samba development

tridge at samba.org tridge at samba.org
Tue Jun 26 11:07:51 GMT 2007


Jelmer,

 > For the last half year I've used Bazaar for my Samba code, but while 
 > local performance has improved it's really, really slow to push across the
 > full history of Samba over the wire all the time. Until lazy 
 > repositories/history horizons (being able to push/pull a tree without its 
 > history) land, I'll go back to Subversion for my Samba code.

I've been using bzr for the 3.0-ctdb tree, and found that it works
quite fast as long as you use rspush for pushing, and use rsync for
initial checkouts (using any other local tree for rsync to feed off
for the initial pull).

Cheers, Tridge


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