On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I think this has come up before - I think it would be useful to migrate our > repository from subversion to git. Apache offers either one. The process > is > just to create a JIRA issue with Infra to migrate us. All of our > subversion > history is migrated along with the move. > > I think some of the features provided by git (better branching, having a > local > repo that is different from the official ASF one, being able to commit > changes > to only part of a file) would be really helpful. > > Do others have thoughts on this? If most people think it is a good idea, > we'll have a vote. > I already vote +1. (I am nearly done converting my personal projects to git and have become very enthusiastic about its benefits.) Switching to git (well DVCS of any kind) from subversion will require us to have a discussion of workflow as there was only one way to work with subversion but git is more of a version control toolkit (even more than other DVCS tools). Workflow will be where people will feel most lost right after the change. Mark -- Mark Gardner --
