Re: Proposal for migration from Subversion to Git.

2010-08-09 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear Tao, I'm all in for this. We might consider such changes right after the 2.4.0 release, but that isn't too far away, so discussing it now is fine. Thanks for the suggestion. IMHO git gives a significant amount of benefit over SVN, simply because the versioning system doesn't enforce any so

Re: Proposal for migration from Subversion to Git.

2010-08-07 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, On Samstag 07 August 2010, Tao Wang wrote: [...] > I prefer move to Git for following reasons: [...] You don't have to move the whole repository: Just use "git-svn" on *your* machine (that's what I'm doing). It gives you all the features you described even though the main repository is sti

Proposal for migration from Subversion to Git.

2010-08-06 Thread Tao Wang
Hi, guys, I tried Git these days for development. It looks great. So, I suggest we migrate our repository from Subversion to Git. I prefer move to Git for following reasons: 1) Git is really fast, especially when you want to check annotates, history log or past modifications. 2) Git is able to