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Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags

From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
To: Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez <lopezibanez at gmail dot com>, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
Cc: Paul_Koning at dell dot com, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:13:46 -0600
Subject: Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags
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On 09/16/2015 10:54 AM, Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez wrote:

On 16 September 2015 at 18:32, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:

On 16 September 2015 at 17:20, Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez wrote:

My impression is that right now one can develop GCC with GIT or SVN (people
are submitting GIT patches all the time). After the conversion, only GIT
will be possible. Does this actually lower the entry barrier and will
attract contributors?


Yes, I think so. "The kids" these days all want to use git, not svn.
That's harder to do because you have to set up git *and* git-svn.


That must mean I'm not a kid anymore. How sad!

Now seriously, I admittedly have no idea how complex is to setup
git-svn. Couldn't we simplify this somehow?

Perhaps it could be improved, but I don't think to the point where it'dbe a seamless integration. Ultimately where we want to be is a worldwhere SVN is a dim memory. git-svn is just a crutch for those who havemade the transition to git, but have to work on projects that are stillstuck in SVN repositories.

This has already been discussed at length at the last 2 Cauldrons and adecision to migrate has been made. Continuing to rehash that decisionisn't really productive.


What is productive is discussion on how to make that migration successful.


Jeff

References:
- Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags
  - From: Jason Merrill
- Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags
  - From: Richard Biener
- Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags
  - From: Paul_Koning
- Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags
  - From: Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez
- Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags
  - From: Jonathan Wakely
- Re: Git conversion: disposition of old branches and tags
  - From: Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez

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