On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 9:52 AM Pierre Labastie <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> Le 26 avr. 2019 14:09, William Harrington <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
>
> On 2019-04-23 04:59, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > There is a private repository on github, created by Bryan Gonzalez
> > (thanks to him), containing jhalfs. It has the whole history of jhalfs
> > (not ALFS), up to svn rev 4100. Bryan has given me (not sure he has
> > given others) write privileges to this repository. I've already added
> > a .gitignore file.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Was this an issue when moving from CVS to SVN?
>
> If you want to host via GIT, then add GIT to your hosts.
> If you abrasive to learn GIT then do it now. no more excuses.
> Time to move along. It like the the move from Linux 2.2 to 2.4 or
> 2.4 to 2.6.
> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/images-git/7/78/Git-svn-cheatsheet.pdf
>
> Ya all use the same kernel which is GIT maintained yet ya don't want
> to use GIT. Still no reason to use SVN.
>
> Bruce isn't the authority on this. This isn't the first time it has been
> brought up. Clearly there is a concern to use GIT for LFS projects.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> William Harrington
>
> I have mixed feelings about this move. On one hand, I do not like "putting
> all the eggs in the same basket", as we say in French. In this case, all
> open source software in the hands of one company. On the other hand, github
> offers many services that are hard to offer on a server administrated by
> only one person. I could set up hosting a git repo on higgs, provided Bruce
> give me enough privs, but what about PR, reviews, and the like ? Also,
> people proposing their help on the project are enthusiastic about this
> move. So let's go github...
>
> As of making the other linuxfromscratch repos git, whether on higgs or
> github, this is another story. I'd vote for, but I can live with svn...
>
> Pierre
>

Hi Pierre,

I understand your concerns about GitHub. For what it's worth, Git itself
makes this much less of a risk because of how it works. When you use Git to
clone a repository, you actually have the *entire* history with a fully
functional copy of it locally. If GitHub becomes unpleasant or abusive some
time in the future, it is very easy for anyone who has an up-to-date clone
to simply move the entire repo to another Git host. All the revision
history will be present just as in the original. I don't think SVN is like
that; my understanding is SVN is very centralized. Git is the complete
opposite, by design.  It's actually very difficult to try to "put a fence
around" a Git repo because of this.

Don
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