+1 to go
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dearest Devs, > > A few months ago I did some work in preparing a solution to using Git > as a primary VCS at the ASF. Now that we have released 1.1.0 and 1.0.3 > there's a bit of a lull in large events dealing with the code base. As > such I thought now would be a good time to propose the idea of moving > CouchDB to Git. > > A few things on what this would mean for the community: > > 1. The SVN repository would no longer be the primary source for > CouchDB source code. It'll still exist for house keeping things like > the website and other bits. > > 2. For the time being there is no fancy integration with anything like > Gerrit. The initial phase of moving to Git will be to just test the > infrastructure aspects of the system to make sure its all configured > correctly and works reliably. This also applies to GitHub. There's no > magical "Pull request turns into JIRA ticket" or similar. GitHub will > remain as it is a currently, a read-only mirror in the GitHub > ecosystem. > > 3. There are a couple minor restrictions on our Git usage as required > by ASF policy. First, rewriting Git commits on master is prohibited. I > also added a feature that allows us to make branches that can't be > rewritten either in the interest of protecting release branches. > Currently, this is just a regular expression that matches > "(master)|(rel/*)" in the branch name. The second issue is that > there's always a possibility we have to revert to SVN if things break. > In this interest I've disabled inserting merge commits into those same > branches. > > 4. Before making the complete switch I'll end up making a handful of > Git clones to check that our history is preserved. I plan on writing a > script to make Graphviz images of the branch history and so on, but > having people volunteer to look back at the history to spot errors > would be helpful as well. > > 5. There are probably other things, but this is mostly to just kick > off serious discussion on making the switch. > > Thoughts? > > Paul >
