On 30.07.2007, at 22:28, Doug Cutting wrote:
Jeff Hammerbacher wrote:
so we're starting to really use hadoop heavily here at facebook,
and we'd
like to start contributing back to the hadoop trunk. we've been
through
this process before (contributing heavily to an actively developed
open
source project) with memached, and the guy who owns the trunk of that
project is quite the SCM nut who says that his life has been made
infinitely
more pleasant by switching from svn to git for version control with
memcached.
i'm not suggesting the project be moved tomorrow. i just wanted
to throw
the question out there to get a sense of how others feel about git
as an SCM
tool.
The project has a fair amount of culture built around subversion.
Also, Apache's infrastructure currently supports subversion, not
git, so we would have to either manage our own repository, which is
not encouraged, or make git a supported part of Apache's
infrastructure, which is rather outside the scope of Hadoop. So we
could potentially move to a different SCM, but someone would have
to make a very compelling case before that would become a project
priority.
Well, there is still git-svn as a two-way bridge. Having said that -
I have no clue how feasible this would be ...but Linus' talk got me
interested in git, too
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
cheers
--
Torsten
