On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Rick Bullotta < rick.bullo...@burningskysoftware.com> wrote:
> a couple other things to be thinking about: > > - since we'll all be collaborating in a "mixed environment" of Windows and > Linux and other, we need to be sensitive to Git settings for CR/LF handling > when determining what files have changed > There are settings for that ( don't have the exact page on Github Help here right now) > > - since Git generally pulls down the whole repository, it would probably > not > be a great thing to have a single, ever-growing repository of all neo > versions and branches and experiments. that could be a real disk space > hog. > we should come up with some reasonable convention for when to split > repositories (major versions? X.Y versions?) > But you do know about Git in general ? No offense here but its a bit misplaced. ;) Git is about raw efficiency when it comes to more branches you can think of, more merges than you have ever wanted in SVN. Think of the Linux Kernel .. > All in all, I think it's a good idea, we just need to be aware of all the > implications. > > -----Original Message----- > From: user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org [mailto:user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org] > On > Behalf Of Rick Bullotta > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 9:25 AM > To: 'Neo4j user discussions' > Subject: Re: [Neo4j] Neo4j is moving to git > > I definitely understand the reason for wanting to use Git, with the more > frequent forks and branches of late, but I do think it would be helpful to > make snapshot builds *with source* available for download as ZIPs or TARs > as > well. For those of us on Windows, there are practical limitations to how > many shell add-ins we can install (right now, I have to use CVS with > Mozilla > stuff, SVN with our hosted Atlassian JIRA system, and now it looks like > I'll > also need to use Git for Neo). > > -----Original Message----- > From: user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org [mailto:user-boun...@lists.neo4j.org] > On > Behalf Of Tobias Ivarsson > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 9:10 AM > To: Neo user discussions > Subject: [Neo4j] Neo4j is moving to git > > Tomorrow, Friday January 28, we will freeze the Neo4j subversion repository > (https://svn.neo4j.org/). > From tomorrow and forward Neo4j subversion will be a read only repository. > The continued evolution of the code will move to a new location and a new > version control system: git at github.com > After the freeze of the subversion repository we will start moving the > source code to its new location at https://github.com/neo4j > > Our hope is that with Github being the largest, fastest growing platform > for > social coding, it will lower the barrier for anyone wanting to contribute > to > Neo4j. Just fork us! > > The repositories should be fully available on Github at some point during > the day tomorrow. > Those of you who have signed our contributed license agreement will get a > separate e-mail, where I'll ask you for your github username to add you to > the list of contributors. > > Happy hacking, > -- > Tobias Ivarsson <tobias.ivars...@neotechnology.com> > Hacker, Neo Technology > www.neotechnology.com > Cellphone: +46 706 534857 > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- *Toni Menzel - http://www.okidokiteam.com* _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
