Re: [Jamwiki-devel] Switch to Git?

[<jam...@li...>]

Hi Thomas,

I'd be interested in hearing from others, but as someone who has used 
Git daily for work for about two years, I'm still not convinced that it 
would be superior to Subversion for JAMWiki development.  The developer 
tools for using Git, particularly on Windows, aren't as strong compared 
to Subversion - Tortoise SVN makes Subversion development extremely 
easy.  In addition, my experience has been that it is far easier to make 
mistakes in Git, and far more difficult to track down and undo those 
mistakes - for example, a bad rebase and merge can make tracking down 
changes hugely confusing.  Finally, my experience has been that 
co-workers have found Subversion easier to understand than Git.

On the plus side, Git is far superior when it comes to merges and 
branching, and its performance is superior to Subversion, but my 
personal opinion is that neither of those advantages outweigh the 
aforementioned disadvantages.

That said, if enough people feel that moving JAMWiki to Git would be a 
preferable solution I wouldn't be opposed, but barring a general 
consensus for such a move then I'd be more comfortable staying on 
Subversion.

Ryan


On 5/10/2012 6:52 AM, jam...@li... wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I already asked this question in July last year, whether there is interest of
> switching the development of Jamwiki to Git. I just wanted to ping, whether
> anything has changed since then?
>
> I'm currently evaluating Jamwiki again and one important point for me to
> choose any software is the sanity of the development process. Using a DVCS,
> especially Git, is one major point in that category.
>
> If I should choose Jamwiki, I'll most probably also package it for Debian
> which would also be a lot easier, if the source were available in Git.
>
> Thank you for the software and any reply,
>
> Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro