On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bruno Cesar Ribas wrote:
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:13:16PM +0000, Julian Phillips wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bruno Cesar Ribas wrote:
Having said that, I don't think it would be a _bad_ thing if this work
went far enough that one could replace a Subversion server without any
users even noticing ;)
I began to think about it... the idea to have a git-svnserver is to move from
svn to git and get my dev team not to worry about the transition at the
start, but it is a good idea to make people get moving to git idea of
devlopment, right?
Or the main idea is that we will have a group devloping under git repo and a
group under svn-gateway for the same project? I don't see a point to have
this! when a repo type is defined everyone must begin to understand that way,
even if it was changed in the middle of the project.
When decided above, we can define our dev of this project. Because as people
make those 'strange' stuff at svn repo that git won't support we will have to
make some workarounds to get git understand those things, and if we have some
people migrated do git and some using svn they will not see some 'svn tags'
on git repo.
That's why i think it should be a transition thing from svn to git.
if you just want to transition everyone on a project from svn to git then you
don't need a git-svn server, you just need a translation tool
what a git-svn server gives you is the ability to have some people use svn
(becouse 'git is too complicated') while others use git.
think about sourceforge as an example. they only want to provide one version
control tool, they started with cvs and are migrating to svn, but if they could
put in a git server and git-svn server and support both.
think of it as 'one version control server to rule them all' (and then encourage
people to do git-hg-server, git-arch-server, git-darc-server, etc)
as far as I can tell (with the exception of recording explicit renames) the git
functionality is a strict superset of all the other version control tools, so it
should be possible to emulate them with git. svn is just the biggest
bang-for-the-buck in terms of number of users.
David Lang
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