I'd be +1 for the offline, branching and commit simplicity as well as a easier merge.
On Jul 9, 2012, at 22:35, Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org> wrote: > On Monday, July 09, 2012 09:48:32 PM Christian Müller wrote: >> I would like to get your opinion about switching from SVN to Git [1]. >> At this point Git support is pretty stable. All projects that's requested >> to be transferred has been switched so far. >> >> What's your preference? >> Should we "force" the switch or wait until (at some time) may all projects >> are switched? > > Well, one issue would be the merge tracking that we do for backporting would > need a major update for a pure git thing. It currently uses svn properties > on the root directory to maintain it's information. Those are obviously > not available in a pure git setup. > > That said, I've thought about moving them out of svn properties and into a > ".mergeinfo" file in the root. I haven't done it as using the properties > maintains compatibility with the svnmerge.py script. Obviously that script > would be irrelevant for pure git. :-) > > Really wouldn't be TOO much work to update my DoMerges script for a pure git > environment and use those files. It already supports a "git-svn" > environment using cherry-pick/commit/push setups (and just uses a little > "svn" to update the properties). > > Dan > > > > > >> >> I'm +1 to force the switch. >> >> [1] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/docs/switching-to-git.html >> >> Best, >> Christian > -- > Daniel Kulp > dk...@apache.org - http://dankulp.com/blog > Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com
