Re: [Audacity-devel] Move to Git
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From: Vaughan J. <va...@au...> - 2011-10-25 23:44:44
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Thanks, Issam. I know your intentions were good. At a seminar on "advanced trolling techniques", starting an argument about version control was cited among the techniques for starting a flame war. People are passionate about them. We changed from CVS to SVN when we moved the code base from SourceForge to GoogleCode. Yes, our primary target these days is bug-fixing. Thanks, Vaughan On 10/25/2011 2:32 AM, Issam wrote: > I am not willing to exhaustively go through and do point by point > comparisons about how git is better or more efficient than svn, > especially if any reference I make will be ignored. I've had a better > experience with it than svn. It is faster. Merges are cleaner. I don't > think it's that hard to learn at all. > > In response to Vaughan Johnson, I did not see the recent version control > change that audacity went through. If our efforts and resources are > better spent on features and bugs for future releases then cool. I can > agree with that. > > I do want to keep this git discussion in mind though as another option. > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo > <ml...@me... <mailto:mle%2B...@me...>> wrote: > > Issam wrote: > > > Moving to git is a very positive thing. > > By what measure? Do you have anything whatsoever to back that up? > > > I'm currently using git-svn too, so > > we know we already have developers using git anyway. > > Since git-svn works without enforcing a change of the status quo > you have to show that git has tangible benefits. > > > Also, learning git is not difficult. > > As someone who uses Git, SVN, Bzr and Darcs regularly I find that > Git is far more complex and has more traps for the unwary than > any of the others. > > > Many IDEs have taken up support for git too. How may projects > > should switch over before we do? > > > > Here is a reference: http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ > > Personally I find all revision control advocacy to be bollocks. > > Erik > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Erik de Castro Lopo > http://www.mega-nerd.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the > demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. > Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn > about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > audacity-devel mailing list > aud...@li... > <mailto:aud...@li...> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-devel > > > > > -- > Issam > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the > demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. > Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn > about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > audacity-devel mailing list > aud...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/audacity-devel |