+1 On 08/31/2011 02:26 PM, Eric Dalquist wrote:
I'd like to see uPortal's source code moved to git and hosted on GitHub. There have been quite a few folks that have been working on uPortal 4, uMobile or are otherwise interested that have asked about using git. After looking into it a bit more I think it would be a very valuable change for uPortal.For those not familiar Git is a _distributed_ source control tool. What that means is there is no true central repository like there is with SVN. Developers don't really checkout some version of the code, they clone the entire project when doing work. That doesn't prevent the convention of a central repository which is what a site like GitHub provides. A place to host a clone of the project that by convention we agree is the master copy of the project.GitHub adds some very nice social-coding aspects to git. Primarily it provides a VERY easy interface that allows anyone to clone a project, make changes and commit them to their clone, then make a pull request on the master project. Once that has happened a simple click of a button is all it takes for any developer with commit access on the master to accept the changes and merge them in. This process makes it very easy for people without direct commit access to commit changes that are reviewed by a core developer before merging in and significantly simplifies the work of the core developers.When there was first talk among about switching I solicited feedback from the Fluid project which recently moved from SVN to Git. I highly recommend reading the resulting thread which highlights a lot of the pros and cons http://old.nabble.com/Perspectives-on-Git-td31852449.htmlThere is an eclipse Git Plugin, a TortiseGit client which is a clone of TortiseSVN and I believe most other IDEs have either built in or plugin support for git.Some other useful links:Git for those without Version Control background - http://hoth.entp.com/output/git_for_designers.htmlGitHub's wonderful help documentation - http://help.github.com/ TortiseGit - http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ Some questions that I can try and answer before they come up:- The uPortal code in svn at source.jasig.org would likely be left in place, we would just make the entire /uPortal directory read-only - We're going to filter out the documentation and website files that were included in early versions of uPortal 2 to reduce the project repository size.Since this is a big change (and since I'm going on vacation for 2 weeks starting Friday) I'm planning on leaving this vote open for a while. +1, 0, -1 to vote and if you vote -1 you need to include a detailed reasoning for your -1 vote.-Eric
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