On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 30.10.15 um 01:48 schrieb Benson Margulies: >> Is this a consensus to proceed yet? It's been a few days since the >> last contribution. >> > We clearly have different opinions, they range from "why change?", > "let's get moving" to "let's do more than a simple conversion". > I don't see a clear consensus/agreement on any of the three. For each > opinion there are imho good/valid arguments. I have the feeling that a > formal vote does not lead us anywhere. > > Maybe someone can clearly identify/list the benefits for everyone if we > move from svn to a single git repo - compared to using the already > existing git proxy. I think this should give everyone a clear view of > why the migration makes sense. And if there are no compelling reasons > then we have a decision as well.
I think I can state some advantages: 1: Make it significantly easier to apply patches from people who provide them via github. 2: Make it significantly easier to create branches in the main repo for collaborative changes. 3: Take a first step towards subdividing into multiple repos where that makes sense. My sense of the email thread is that we have some enthusiastic supporters of moving to git, and some '+0' weak objectors. So, in some models of consensus process, that would be a reason to go ahead. Do you want to recast this as a VOTE as a way of clarifying views? > > Carsten > -- > Carsten Ziegeler > Adobe Research Switzerland > [email protected]
