On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Werner Punz <werner.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Matthias Wessendorf schrieb: >> >> Hi fellow contributors and committers, >> >> a recently common asked question is: >> "Is it possible for an ASF project (-> myfaces and its subprojects) to >> use git ?" >> >> The answer is: >> Yes and no. All projects need to use svn as the central store of all >> source code, but individual committers and contributors can use git as >> an "alternative svn client". See http://git.apache.org/ and >> http://wiki.apache.org/general/GitAtApache for the currently available >> tools and some initial documentation. >> >> So, question is now, do we (Apache MyFaces) want such a read-only git >> mirror ? >> >> If yes, I'd be more than happy to run this on the >> "infrastructure-...@apache.org" list. >> > Just to give a short summary why a read only mirror is preferrable over > a full git-svn checkout. > The git mirror would allow git deltas to be downloaded instead of single > svn commits, which would make the initial checkout (git mirror) way faster! > > As for svn externals, git-svn cannot deal with externals directly > but there are workarounds like using git subprojects or > using symlinks. I personally prefer nowadays git over svn even despite the > fact that only Intellij and a handful of editors have decent git > integration. Git is simply so much better in dealing with day to day > versioning tasks that going back to plain svn is painful! > > Werner
ok... let me now bring it up on infrastructure-...@apache.org. -Matthias > > > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
