-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Friesenhahn on 9/19/2007 7:12 PM: Hi Bob, >> >> The initial git import is complete. Feel free to check it out: >> >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git > > What is the purpose of converting to git? Primarily speed, but also security. In particular, Bruno found a rather telling flaw in the CVS model of pushing all local files to the server, and letting the server do all the work: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-03/msg00474.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cvs/2007-01/msg00018.html Distributed version control systems (dvcs) do not have this flaw. Personally, I enjoy the speed of browsing history on my own machine with gitk rather than the slowness that is cvsweb. It makes archeological digs through version control much faster. Other benefits - git can trace file renames, and has a much more efficient branching scheme than CVS. Which means simultaneous development on unrelated topic branches is much easier to manage. > Is this a political statement > (e.g. "Linux GNU" vs "GNU Linux") or is there a concrete purpose? What > is the cost vs benefit of the conversion? Who participated in the > decision to make this conversion? The gnulib list made the conversion first; it has been discussed there for nearly half a year, and the group consensus was that git provided enough benefits that it was worth switching, provided that read-only CVS access was still possible. For example: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=conversion+git&submit=Search%21&idxname=bug-gnulib&max=20&result=normal&sort=score A reasonable number of the autoconf maintainers follow the gnulib list. And for those that don't, I stand by my promise to keep both the CVS and git repositories in sync for a while longer, until we are sure that the time has come to favor the git repository. I just hope it is faster than the 6 months it took gnulib (although a lot of that delay was waiting for git 1.5.3 to be released, as well as infrastructure improvements on savannah to support git-based projects). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG8cv284KuGfSFAYARAmyEAJ9Xxo1FzMdth7EQdQv2f8Oq8TeHfgCg0twD RQJpIBAk4KUGMT+Vm4o7/d0= =G/nK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
