Re: [AD] Switch to git?

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon March 2 2009, Michael Swiger wrote:
> It sounds like you guys are making things unnecessarily complicated, but
> perhaps I am wrong. I would think one source control system would be good
> enough... why isn't that the case?

git and svn fill different niches. svn is for projects like ours that have no central maintainer that "sees everything". that members we can all do stuff with it offline at any time, and export their own tree for people to use, or pull from.

They are for two totally different development methodologies, and Allegro isn't a purely distributed project.

I'm sure it could evolve to become so. but I don't think anyone wants to take the effort right now.

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2 mrt 2009, at 16:42, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > > Given how some of us already access the SVN repository over git-svn,
> > > would it make sense for us to switch over to using only git?
> > >
> > > For me personally, it would make no difference whatsoever I think.
> > > For a
> > > project like Allegro a central repository is best anyway - so the only
> > > change would be the use of local git tools instead of svn, which I
> > > already get with git-svn... what do others think?
> >
> > I've never used git and have no current plans to start doing so.
> > Switching Allegro over to git would present a barrier for me to
> > continue work on Allegro simply because I have no experience in using
> > git.
> > Not something that cannot be overcome (it can't be *that* hard to
> > switch to a different version control system), but it takes an effort
> > I wouldn't necessarily feel like taking at the moment.
> >
> > So to emphasise: I have no thoughts on git one way or the other, but I
> > also am not going to put in the time and effort it would take me to
> > get acquainted with it for the time being. I have other things to do
> > with my time.
> >
> > So I would prefer to keep things the way they are in that regard.
> >
> > Evert
> >
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