On So, 18 Okt 2009, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > However, given what you want to do is really to stick to the SVN way of > doing things, then why don't you simply stay with SVN? Git works in a I fear so. > fundamentally different way than SVN, and if you aren't willing/able to > change your workflow away from the SVN way then there is really not much > for you to gain by switching to Git. Well, as I said in the beginning, the metadata handling of svn is a pain in huge repositories like ours with thousands of subdirectories of subdirs of subdirs and 80k+ files. That was the reason I thought about git. But I am coming to the conclusion that I will use git for my other projects, but not for that one. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining Associate Professor JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology preining@xxxxxxxxxxx Vienna University of Technology preining@xxxxxxxx Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force) preining@xxxxxxxxxx gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GLASSEL (n.) A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing their suitcases with after the holiday. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html