From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SbOJI-00038L-Me for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 03:50:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07284E078C; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB76E04BA for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:49:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so2015470wib.10 for ; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:49:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KSnA5rYAmjnvKMdgtOW5wpAZPQXCNfQ3sVV+fgqcjhk=; b=zNXZwArT0f7g3f8XuX9ZNo+xhJ+5DLyGfQROzeRDvl2gknwcVXw4k3RFbCisfJnRA/ kdVkJ2KtkfARVOZPYuScl0jU1Q3ngz9rZXDi6Umi2vJJmt1fPYYXfAW9jDHDHLGnjMx/ FOFjIkL4BWn0uocn2/xJFvth0ioh2EuOJOGKqNFhsb1dViweMTTCD4UewjemWaA/rH0t JyjsoPHjpzn5puI/MotBhyDHHgu4322z+Zl5dN2onFFBZu+43nWAi6rd8vOh0ET3uZzx zISRGvOK551O4xIB5c/ngI1jufqcbMAG4LFNX9kF3u+1wbsP5LJi2ts+pfjtkB4ESefH oEhQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.144.139 with SMTP id n11mr9516790wej.30.1338781771447; Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.60.167 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Jun 2012 20:49:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 03:49:31 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Git braindump: 2 of N: developer interaction (merge co-ordinators) From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e356e9b2-26be-450c-aa58-39d29909f7e8 X-Archives-Hash: 691412e0fc234f20ead578050d168bd9 On 3 June 2012 09:46, Robin H. Johnson 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. --=20 Kent perl -e=C2=A0 "print substr( \"edrgmaM=C2=A0 SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_= * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz