[OpenWrt-Devel] SVN to GIT transition

[L. D. Pinney]

Just my 2-cents

IF it isn't BROKEN....please DON'T fix it.



On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Nemesis <nemesis at ninux.org> wrote:

> On 10/10/2015 07:45 PM, nemesis wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:41:24 +0300, Roman Yeryomin <leroi.lists at gmail.com>
> <leroi.lists at gmail.com> <leroi.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9 October 2015 at 21:22, Jo-Philipp Wich <jow at openwrt.org>
> <jow at openwrt.org> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Moving to Git seemed to have lots of traction at the summit, and I'll
> add my voice that this sounds like a step in the right direction for
> OpenWrt.  I'm assuming that we would want to do a proper SVN to Git
> conversion, and Eric's help on this would be great, I think.  My
> discussion with Eric is over on Google+ and marked public:
> https://plus.google.com/+JonathanBennett87/posts/bMPMjn7ZcJS
>
>
> Why does the core system need to migrate from svn to git?
>
>
> I thought everybody is using git anyway already. Are there people
> still using svn?
>
>
> doing something because everybody is doing so is not the best argument
> IMHO.
>
> I would say that using git would improve quite a few things:
>
> * it would be easier to send upstream patches
> * having a good git web interface like gitlab or github would allow
> newcomers to participate more easily
> * it would make life easier to the core contributors that prefer to work
> with git because git allows a very powerful development workflow compared
> to SVN
>
>
> I remember somebody also mentioned sending patches to the linux kernel
> would be easier.
>
> What do you people think about this point?
>
> Federico
>
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