Re: [Flightgear-devel] FGData splitting / assembling the base package

[James T. <zak...@ma...>]

> On 26 Feb 2015, at 19:40, Stefan Seifert <ni...@de...> wrote:
> 
> Just wanted to counter the impression that Israel is the only one who promotes 
> this solution. From what I've read so far the proposed fgdata with submodules 
> is an elegant, simple and future proof solution. It's easy to use and avoids 
> downsides of other solutions (like losing history). Users only need to learn 
> one single version control system. Just clone fgdata and init all submodules 
> for the optional pieces that one wants to use. It's that simple. And it's 
> almost done with a credible volunteer for doing the rest.

The problem is that many of the users have proved to be incapable of learning Git. Particular a couple of key aircraft developers. Multiple different people have tried and failed to educate the rest of the contributor base about using Git correctly.

My impression is all the people strongly advocating Git are coders, or technical people. The problem is we have contributors to FGData who are not that technical. The biggest argument for SVN over Git for me is the ability to work on parts of the repo, but the second biggest argument is tooling, where the Windows situation in particular is much better for SVN.

The statement ‘just clone and init’ shows how far the understanding gap is. You’re talking about steps that are already confusing for people who regard FGData as something like DropBox.

Kind regards,
James