Gnome chose Git

FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from
Subversion to Git:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134

Heya,

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:23, Teemu Likonen [off-list ref] wrote:

FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from
Subversion to Git:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134

Sweet, now how long until my university starts offering git hosting
and my fellow students start using it in their projects? :P

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2009/3/19 Teemu Likonen [off-list ref]:

FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from
Subversion to Git:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134

There does seem to be a typo in the release though.

"We realize that git is not perfect, and that the transition will
require significant and important changes to many GNOME processes."

s/ not//

There, fixed that.

Seriously, they should be advocating a c) there, contributing
improvements back to git (and whichever svn migration tool they used)
for the benefit of all, which I'm sure we'll see.

Mike

Teemu Likonen venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2009 12:23:

FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from
Subversion to Git:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134

Good choice :)

Interestingly, they seem to go the svn-all-fast-export route.

Also, they need push tracking for pushing through ssh, which is a common
requirement for many large projects. Do we have something to support
that? git-notes comes to my mind.

Their current approach is writing to a single log file (receive-hook).
That may support a linear push history best, but looking up who pushed
what, given "what"?

Michael

Mike Ralphson wrote:

2009/3/19 Teemu Likonen [off-list ref]:

quoted

FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from
Subversion to Git:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134

There does seem to be a typo in the release though.

"We realize that git is not perfect, and that the transition will
require significant and important changes to many GNOME processes."

s/ not//

There, fixed that.

Seriously, they should be advocating a c) there, contributing
improvements back to git (and whichever svn migration tool they used)
for the benefit of all, which I'm sure we'll see.

Kristian Högsberg played a rather significant part in the migration
process. Since he's an old git contributor, he'll almost certainly
see to it that improvements are made available to core git.

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