Hello Maarten, I do not know a lot about git either.
Here are the advantages I see in migrating to git : - git allows third-parties to clone an original repository and in fact to create a fork while keeping the possibility of contributing back what they have created if they want to, and also importantly to incorporate inside their branches changes done elsewhere including in the reference repository. So I see git as having the same strategic importance for the source code like the fact of uploading the ant jars to maven central is for the use of the binaries. - for the developers of the Apache project - us - the small advantages are to be able to commit stuff locally on our computers before pushing when we are happy with our changes. Also one can switch branch very quickly within the same workspace when using git, this might be an advantage. - because of the popularity of git I imagine that the change is good for the long run but this is speculation I imagine that some corporations, individuals,or other open source organizations will take advantage of our projects moving to git to create these forks, either because the contribution process via JIRA is too slow, or because they want to create proprietary enhancements, or because they are not sure that the changes that they do match the views /plans... of our the Ant/Ivy/Ivyde/Easyant Apache project. Regards, Antoine Le 30 avr. 2014 01:57, Maarten Coene <maarten_co...@yahoo.com> a écrit : > > Probably because I don't know much about git, but I don't see the real > advantage of the switch from SVN to git. > In addition, I don't have the time to help adapting the Ivy release > process/scripts. > But I don't want to stand in the way if everyone thinks this should be done. > > So, my vote is: > for Ivy: -0 > for the rest: +0 > > Maarten
