Linus on Git responding to KDE

Linus Torvalds posted a lengthy response to someone from the KDE community about using Git with KDE, and it's definitely worth a read:

Practically speaking, you'd generally have one or a few central repositories, yes. But no, it really doesn't have to be a single one. And I'm not just talking about mirroring (which is really easy with a distributed setup), I'm literally talking about things like some people wanting to use the "stable" tree, and not my tree at all, or the vendor trees.

And they are obviously connected, but it doesn't have to be a totally central notion at all.

Think of the git trees as people: some people are more "central" than others, but in the end, the kernel is actually fairly unusual (at least for a big project) in having just one person that is so much in the "center" that everybody knows about him.

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 | Tags: tools, git, kde, scm, dscm, svn, cvs