[tei-council] TEI Stylesheets, the road less travelled

[Hugh Cayless]

It will also make it easier for people to submit patches to the stylesheets, which seems to me a great advantage.

On Jul 23, 2013, at 10:28 , Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz at it.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 23 Jul 2013, at 15:10, Syd Bauman <s.bauman at NEU.EDU> wrote:
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>> Well I'm not going to throw a hissy fit, but why would we want to do
>> such a thing? Yes, git is newer and shinier than svn, but its
>> advantages are not those we want anyway. And its added complexity (in
>> order to support those advantages that we won't be taking advantage
>> of) will make things harder for those who want to pick this stuff up.
> 
> 
> it seemed to me a relatively small change - where does the
> added complexity come in? from where I sit, the actions
> to make a change and submit it are not dissimilar, and have the
> advantage of nice tools to make them happen.  I assume that
> most of us here have to be able to use both Git and SVN anyway.
> 
> But the principal advantage is that local copies and forks are much better supported. Anything
> which means I can work away on fixes and improvements without
> breaking a public site has much to recommend it.
> 
> for casual users, the facility for web-based editing (for example)
> is pretty useful, isn't it?
> 
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