[1066] in BarnOwl Developers
Re: [Poll] Moving to git
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Thu Oct 29 18:12:40 2009
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Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:12:00 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
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I haven't seen any responses to this. Does anyone have opinions about
whether or not they would want to see barnowl move to git, or is
everyone completely indifferent?
- Nelson
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:07:36PM -0400, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> There's been some suggestion of moving the barnowl source repository
> to git, instead of svn. I'm personally already using git to develop
> barnowl, using git-svn to move changes back and forth.
>
> I'm mostly happy with svn, but branching and merging is a bit of a
> pain, even with svnmerge; I think the ability to branch and merge much
> more easily would be the main advantage to git.
>
> The main disadvantage is that git is still relatively young and more
> annoying to work with in some ways; For instance, it can create really
> convoluted merge histories unless everyone is always careful to
> git-rebase rather than merging where appropriate, which also has some
> potential negative consequences.
>
> Does anyone here have a strong opinion either way?
>
> - Nelson
>
