On Thursday 2024-06-27 08:52, Dirk Müller via openSUSE Factory wrote:
Am Mi., 26. Juni 2024 um 14:40 Uhr schrieb Michael Pujos <pujos.michael@gmail.com>:
Just curious: what is the rationale for offering that alternate git workflow for maintaining packages vs OBS ? Who would use that and for which reason ?
There's been two hypotheses around that:
* It is easier to get drive-by contributions as the general familiarity of git + PR workflow is higher than having to sign up for a separate account on a separate web site having to install a separate tool to submit a change (adding a patch, updating a version) * It eases the maintenance of a package in multiple code streams because branches are a first class feature of git, while it is an afterthought in the custom subversion-like source control system of the Open Build Service
and * Downloading history is simply faster because you don't have the latency of one HTTP request multiplied by number of files multiplied by number of revisions you want to have.