I believe we've had two discussions in the past on switching to git. I talked to Tim about various other advantages of .git, like the lack of autoprops annoyance, and corrected the notion that there isn't a Windows client and his reponse was "maybe in a year or two".
Generally the limitation is the fact that we're currently abusing svn's ability to only check out specific directories rather than an entire repo to make it easy to check out all the extensions or individual ones without any trouble. We've had ideas like using git submodules to mark stable versions of extensions so extension repos can be flexibly checked out. Oh something interesting. With a bit of trickery I recently managed to splice the entire history of one git repo into a branch of another git repo creating a git repo that has two separate initial commits in two separate branches. And from the looks of it it's perfectly possible to fetch history from the original repo into the proper branch. So it should be interestingly possible to create a script that fetches history updates for every extension at once by embedding them all into separate branches of a single git repo, and then locally (with no network latency) pulling the history from those branches into the real repos. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] Max Semenik wrote: > Since there are some talks about migration from SVN anyway[1], I > decided to unshelf my essay on this matter.[2] It discusses possible > alternatives to Subversion and is in no way complete, everyone is > invited to participate in drafting and discussing. Some sections need > input of those who have practical experience with those systems, as > for example I've never used Bazaar. > > ------ > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?curid=44222&diff=301482&oldid=301369 > [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Source_control_considerations > > -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
