From: Christoph S. <ste...@eb...> - 2009-02-19 09:14:47
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I'm very much in favour of this move to GIT. Cheers, Chris Egon Willighagen wrote: > Hi all, > > it's that time of the year... > > with this email I want to propose switching away from SVN into the Git > world for trunk, and all future development. Since the last discussion > on these matters, a lot has changed, and git has become much more user > friendly. Up to the point, that graphical interfaces are commonplace > now, for all reasonable platforms. More importantly, several CDK > developers have played with git, and are available for support, just > like there was such support when we moved from CVS to SVN. > > The major reason for me to propose this change is that making > branches, and, in particular, *merging* branches works much better in > git. And this fits in very nicely we the branch-to-patch policy last > year, which describes that any major (re)writing in the CDK should go > via a branch, so that it can be properly reviewed before entering the > main branch (kept by the release manager of that CDK series, which has > been me for the last few years). > > Testing a patch becomes as easy as making a local branch, pulling the > patch, recompile and test. Switching local branches is just as easy. > > If you have really, really strong arguments not to make this move > after the 1.2.0 release this month (yes, for sure), please bring them > forward now. > > For now, if you like to start using Git for the CDK, please refer to > this page, where a cdk1.2.x/ repository is hosted: > > http://github.com/egonw/cdk/tree/master > > Looking forward to hearing from you, with strong arguments, or a > message that you like to see the move too, > > Egon > -- Dr. Christoph Steinbeck Head of Chemoinformatics and Metabolism European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD UK Phone +44 1223 49 2640 What is man but that lofty spirit - that sense of enterprise. ... Kirk, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.. |