Re: [xml-dev] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh? Sour

["Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>]

On 11/25/13 9:42 AM, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> About git: you can use git more-or-less like svn, although there are
> definitely extra steps.  One thing I have come to really like about it
> is the ability to commit changes without immediately sharing them with
> the world (you commit, and then push, as two steps). You could do this
> with svn branches, kind of, but they seem so heavyweight and I never
> really use them as much as perhaps I should. I do find myself searching
> stackoverflow every so often when I get into weird git situations.
Yep.  I'm surprised not to have found a "combine add, commit, and push" 
feature in git to make it as quick as SVN for those used to SVN. 
However, I utterly marvel at the multi-user working on an airplane 
scenarios that git regularly makes possible for our authors, and not 
just with code.

Also, this isn't very off-topic.  O'Reilly uses git with markup 
(asciidoc, HTML, DocBook) for most of our book development and 
production these days.  I suspect that in the long run git may prove a 
worthy alternative to many content management systems:

<http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/11/restructuring-the-web-with-git.html>

Though it treats markup all as text, with no understanding of markup 
structures.  I've not yet decided if that's a feature or a bug.

Thanks,
--
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/