+1 for git. +1 for Branches instead of tags. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Huxing Zhang <huxing....@alibaba-inc.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am +1 on migrating to git. I think this will help people easier to get > involved. > > One quick question to Plan A: > After migration to git, will the previous mirrors, e.g. > https://github.com/apache/tomcat70, be removed? > > We maintain an internal repository with selective tomcat versions, which > depend on these mirrors to merge the latest releases. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> > 2017 Dec 6 (Wed) 04:03 > Tomcat Developers List <dev@tomcat.apache.org> > Migrating to git > > > Hi all, > > I've been doing some experiments to see how we might migrate from our > current svn structure to git. It appears that git svn is able to follow > directory moves so, with that in mind, I'd like to propose the following > outline plan: > > Plan A > ====== > > 0. Run plan past infra > 1. Restructure svn > 2. Get infra to re-mirror new structure > 3. Validate mirror > 4. Pick a date to switch > > This assumes that we do want to switch to git. My sense from the most > recent discussion was that we did. > > To expand on the point one, the restructuring would look like: > > /trunk -> no change > /tags/TOMCAT_9* -> tags/tc9.0.x/ > /tc8.5.x/trunk -> branches/tc8.5.x > /tc8.5.x/tags/* -> tags/tc8.5.x/ > /tc8.0.x/trunk -> branches/tc8.0.x > /tc8.0.x/tags/* -> tags/tc8.0.x/ > /tc7.0.x/trunk -> branches/tc7.0.x > /tc7.0.x/tags/* -> tags/tc7.0.x/ > > and then migrate /trunk, /tags and /branches to git, leaving the rest in > place. Most will stay there. Some components may move to git in the future. > > Plan B > ====== > > Pick a different component (native, jk) and migrate that first. > > > If we do want to migrate there will be lots of details to work out such > as how to migrate the "view differences" feature of the migration page > but I'm sure we'll be able to work something out. > > Thoughts, comments etc.? > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org -- Regards
