Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Mike Swanson wrote: > On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 09:45 +, Oliver Schneider wrote: >> I have worked with reposurgeon for nearly three years and it's the >> only >> comprehensive tool, I know of, to achieve lossless copies of a repo >> in

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Mike Swanson
On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 09:45 +, Oliver Schneider wrote: > I have worked with reposurgeon for nearly three years and it's the > only > comprehensive tool, I know of, to achieve lossless copies of a repo > in > another version control system. It even comes with a companion tool > to > verify the

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Aleksey Bragin
sideration for migrating from Subversion to Git Hi Mike, So I was about to finish my ongoing server work in the next few days and then push for a move to Git on the mailing lists. Thanks for spoiling those plans! :) I totally agree with all your raised points. I'm using Git every day at work now, so

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Zachary Gorden
ase the likelihood of patches from outside the >> team, then that in itself is a good enough reason to move IMO. >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Ged Murphy [mailto:gedmurphy.mailli...@gmail.com] >> Sent: 25 February 2016 11:26 >> To: 'ReactOS De

[ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Ștefan Fulea
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:54 AM, David Quintana (gigaherz) wrote: I think the real goal with moving to a platform such as github is reducing the entry barriers for new contributors. As it has been mentioned already, almost all projects who moved from SVN with "send patches" contribution system,

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread David Quintana (gigaherz)
t List' <ros-dev@reactos.org> > Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git > > > I think the real goal with moving to a platform such as github is > > reducing the entry barriers for new contributors. As it has been > > mentioned a

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Ged Murphy
Murphy [mailto:gedmurphy.mailli...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 February 2016 11:26 To: 'ReactOS Development List' <ros-dev@reactos.org> Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git > I think the real goal with moving to a platform such as github is > reducing the en

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Ged Murphy
> I think the real goal with moving to a platform such as github is reducing > the entry barriers for new contributors. As it has been mentioned already, > almost all projects who moved from SVN with "send patches" contribution > system, to Git/Hg with Pull Requests have got non-negligible growth

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread David Quintana (gigaherz)
I think the real goal with moving to a platform such as github is reducing the entry barriers for new contributors. As it has been mentioned already, almost all projects who moved from SVN with "send patches" contribution system, to Git/Hg with Pull Requests have got non-negligible growth in

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Ged Murphy wrote: > Are we not just looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't really > exist? Is SVN stopping us from doing anything, or from changing to a better > way of working for our project style? The move from CVS to

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Ged Murphy
-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git Hi Mike, So I was about to finish my ongoing server work in the next few days and then push for a move to Git on the mailing lists. Thanks for spoiling those plans! :) I totally agree with all your raised points. I'm using Git every day

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-25 Thread Oliver Schneider
Hi all, want to share some thoughts and experiences regarding a VCS migration. On 2016-02-25 07:49, Neal Gompa wrote: > The poor usability of Git on non-*nix platforms is one of the reasons > why I'm still a huge fan of Mercurial. Also, the SVN-like CLI workflow > means that's it's less

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-24 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Colin Finck wrote: > Hi Mike, > > So I was about to finish my ongoing server work in the next few days and > then push for a move to Git on the mailing lists. Thanks for spoiling > those plans! :) > > I totally agree with all your raised points.

Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

2016-02-24 Thread Colin Finck
Hi Mike, So I was about to finish my ongoing server work in the next few days and then push for a move to Git on the mailing lists. Thanks for spoiling those plans! :) I totally agree with all your raised points. I'm using Git every day at work now, so do several of our developers. For some of