Re: How about moving from svn to git?

[Sébastien Tandel <sebastien.tandel () gmail com>]

Hello,


I had already made the proposal to Gerald some time ago and I'm really ok
with this proposal.

I started using git three years ago and even if the underlying concepts are
slightly different from cvs/svn, once we're used to it, it is not possible
to go back to cvs/svn. I've introduced it in my previous company and if at
the beginning, there were some people doubting about the advantages of git,
now they are *all loving* this tool and there is no one wanting to go back
to cvs/svn.

Git support for windows improved a lot since its start and turtoise seems to
work quite well now (I'm though not a windows user).
If git is not well-suited for windows, there exists another one which is
really similar - developed at the same time by another kernel developer -
called mercury (hg).

At last, it is possible to interact between git and svn with ... git-svn. It
is what I'm doing for wireshark, it is not the ideal but it works pretty
well.


[]s,
Sebastien

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 09:31, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping () googlemail com>wrote:

> Joerg Mayer schrieb:
> > Hello,
> >
> > this is just something that went through my mind yesterday while working
> > on the third patch on the same files and without a chance to commit
> > between the patches. If there is one thing that I don't like (although
> > I do it sometimes) is to do a commit that does several things at once.
> > With git, I could commit each patch (which is done locally) and
> eventually
> > push all commits to the central repository while maintaing the indivitual
> > character of the commits.
> > I don't like git very much, but that's what various projects I'm tracking
> > use, so that's why I propose the use of git. Also - if I'm not mistaken -
> > some people seem to use tortoise and that tool seems to have git support.
>
> Tortoise git support was not suitable for productive use the last time
> I've read their page.
>
> AFAIK, moving to git would be a big hurdle for Windows developers.
>
> Regards, ULFL
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