Re: [gentoo-dev] Git braindump: 2 of N: developer interaction (merge co-ordinators)

[Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>]

On 3 June 2012 09:46, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
 If there are enough "Alice" developers, is it a possibility that Bob
> will never have a chance to get his commit in?
>
> All this requires, is that in the time it takes Bob to do 'git pull',
> Alice manages to do 'git push' again.
>
> Alice can thus deprive Bob of a fair chance to get his commit in.
> Bob becomes an unhappy developer and gives up.

There's an easier solution here:

Bob pushes to a branch or to a public repo ( ie: github ) , and then
contacts Alice ( or somebody else ) who pulls their changes into the
tree on their behalf.

Its not "ideal" but better than nothing. And certainly better than
being stuck on SVN where this case is virtually guaranteed and with no
viable workarounds when it is encountered.



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