> > > > On Sep 1, 2020, at 10:59 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 1 September 2020 at 13:14:10 -0400, Ed Maste wrote: > >> We've been updating the svn-git converter and pushing out a new > >> converted repo every two weeks, and are now approaching the time where > >> we'd like to commit to the tree generated by the exporter, > >> ... > > > > Somehow I've missed this development. Reading between the lines, it > > seems that we're planning to move from svn to git, but I can't recall > > seeing any announcement on the subject. Can you give some background? > > It would also be nice to find a HOWTO both for the migration and for > > life with git. > > We?ve been talking about the transition for about 5 years now. So far, only > people interested in git have showed up to do any work at all. Subversion has > lost, and even Apache, the main users of it, are moving to git. We started > early in the year with the firm plans and have been working on it since then. > These conversations have happened all over the place, and we?ve been posting > to developers for months now...
To the contrary 5 years ago the project on @developers basically ran off one of the committers over the very idea of using git for the project. It was shortly after I returned, so I find it very ironic that now its all "git git git and we being heading to this for 5 years...." Would you expect those opposed to this idea to help with it? Really? > There?s some draft guides, but they need work which is on my plate. They are > OK, but have some issues on the more complicated bits. > > Warner -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
