Hi Sergio, 2014-03-05 13:00 GMT+01:00 Sergio Fernández < sergio.fernan...@salzburgresearch.at>:
> Hi, > > > On 05/03/14 11:04, Tommaso Teofili wrote: > >> 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). >> > > I completely agree with you. and that's why I opened this discussion > thread. My reasons are (and might not been shared/agreed by others) the > following ones: > > * performance, specially in the ASF's svn setup > * simpler format, so repair is easy and corruption is rare > * real branching management with frictionless switch > * better branch auditing and merge events > * option for new workflows not possible now, particularly on > topic branches with a mid-long term life > * more effective (private) forking > > that looks like a comprehensive list of good reasons, thanks :) One notable thing, IMHO, is that you can effectively work offline, by using multiple commits for each stage of the work and then push once back online. > On the other, it comes with a prize: svn is very simple and you may be > used to it, while with git you'd need to learn new processes (and > commands). And of course that's something to take into account too. > right, the worst case I can imagine is a committer merging wrongly two branches (e.g. long time running feature branch vs trunk) and therefore messing up the repository, however, as usual, with great powers come great responsibilities and I assume we'll be all very careful, especially on the early stages, if the switch happens. > > Regarding the ASF tools, there is a minor inconvenience: Apache CMS > currently does not support git, so the web site's source code would keep > managed by svn. > I'd say that's not a showstopper though. > I just want to add a quote by Andrew Morton I always found funny when he > introduced Linus Torvalds in a talk about git at Google quite long ago: > "Git is expressly designed to make you feel less intelligent than you > thought you were." But don't worry, it just takes a while to get your > confidence back ;-) :) Regards, Tommaso > > > 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 >
