Hi Holger, On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:12:53PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:19:24PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > In short: There is no doubt that Git is the better VCS but spending > > developer time simply to switch lots of packages from an old VCS to a > > modern one has zero effect on users desktops and has no high priority. > > I think that in the mid-term (probably even in short term) you'll *save* > developer time by switching to git,
And your thinking is based on what arguments? As I tried to explain I'm perfectly convinced that Git is way better in most cases - but those superior features are not needed in all cases. The only thing that would save me some time in the cases I mentioned is that I from time to time type svn commit -a git commit -a if I actually mean svn commit :-) > And also you're imposing a stupid tool to anyone who wants to help out or > do security fixes. Hmmm, if those packages received any NMUs the NMUer never commited anything anyway - so this argument is void. > I'd be happy if Debian would enforce git for every source package now! I'm willing to adapt to such decision but I feel my time totally wasted to do a SVN versus Git flamewar (and this is my last mail regarding this). > Debian aims to be the universal OS, but that doesn't mean we have to support > an universe of workflows and tools. Surely we doesn't have to support various workflows but these have developed over the time and I never had the impression that changes in Debian happened with dead beat arguments. > Everybody should be using version > control for their packages. Really. I fully agree and I'm known for team highjacking packages into Git repositories in several cases (and was also critizised about doing so). > And probably we should all just use git. If we really could agree upon a common workflow I will definitely adapt. But there is no such agreement as far as I can see. Please take my previous mail rather as an explanation for the current state than my definite wish to keep the status quo under any circumstance. > And work together nicely. +1 Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de