Move to git: +1 from me, too. On Mar 5, 2014 11:52 AM, "Rafa Haro" <rh...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Tommaso, > > In my honest opinion, it is not a matter of preferences, I believe there > are strong and objective reasons to think that git is a better resource for > version control. But, of course, I agree that each developer can be more > comfortable with different options. > > Cheers, > Rafa > > El 05/03/14 11:04, Tommaso Teofili escribió: > >> While I like Git and I am therefore not against such a move I think it >> only >> makes sense if there're clear listed reasons for it, backporting things >> from trunk to branch_x is not so hard even with SVN, Lucene for example >> does that [1] and it's usually just a matter of running >> svn merge -c $trunk.commit.revision.no >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/trunk on the branch_x. >> >> Let's also consider there may be a number of current users that are >> confident with SVN but never tried Git. >> >> Again I'm not against it, I like and use a lot Git, but I'd prefer >> deciding >> on clear facts rather than just committers' preferences (mine included). >> >> My 2 cents, >> Tommaso >> >> [1] : https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/SvnMerge >> >> 2014-03-05 7:11 GMT+01:00 Sergio Fernández < >> sergio.fernan...@salzburgresearch.at>: >> >> Hi Stanbolers, >>> >>> this is not the first time I put this on the table of the community, but >>> the discussion never went further... But now 0.1.20 release is out, I >>> think >>> is a good time to refresh it. >>> >>> I'm not sure what others think, but personally I find so inconvenient >>> that >>> Stanbol still uses svn as scm (in fact it's the only project where I use >>> it >>> at the momemnt). Switching to a dvcs would bring many possibilities >>> currently we do not have, specially now that we have to keep the 0.12.x >>> long-term maintenance branch. >>> >>> Actually the svn is already being mirrored (read-only) to git: >>> >>> git://git.apache.org/stanbol.git >>> http://github.com/apache/stanbol >>> >>> But I can check Infra to make a testing migration to a real repository. >>> The transition should not take so long. >>> >>> What do you think? Comments are welcomed. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -- >>> Sergio Fernández >>> Senior Researcher >>> Knowledge and Media Technologies >>> Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH >>> Jakob-Haringer-Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria >>> T: +43 662 2288 318 | M: +43 660 2747 925 >>> sergio.fernan...@salzburgresearch.at >>> http://www.salzburgresearch.at >>> >>> >
