[OpenWrt-Devel] SVN to GIT transition

[Jonathan Bennett]

Certain things are certainly broken.  The body of kernel code that OpenWrt
maintains (allows to bitrot) outside the upstream kernel tree is broken.

Regarding downstream forks, would using Git also make it easier for people
like project turris to push appropriate changes back into OpenWrt proper?

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:38 PM L. D. Pinney <ldpinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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