Re: [limesurvey-developers] Usage of GIT -what do you think?

[Carsten S. <car...@li...>]

Hello!

I would like to keep a full history out of respect for all past 
contributors. It is also amazing that we are able to re-create any 
version we ever released from the history.

Theoretically we should be able at any point in time to find out who 
wrote when what snippet of code, if only just for legal reasons. I don't 
think that taking along the history is really a problem. Github has only 
soft limits on repository sizes and I already asked them to give us a 
good extensions. The conversion just takes a little longer, but that's 
not a real problem. At the LimeSurvey server we run a full mirror of the 
sf.net SVN repository so I would use the server (which is quite fast) 
and that local repository (which makes it  really really fast) to do the 
conversion.  I also don't want the old subversion repository to linger 
around (what good would it be?), clear cuts for me ;)

So far I did not hear any voices against this change, so I am preparing 
mentally for the conversion already.
This one here: 
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/articles/g/i/t/GitSvnCrashCourse_512d.html
is also really helping understanding the different terminology between 
both systems.


Best regards from Hamburg/Germany

Carsten Schmitz

LimeSurvey Project Leader
car...@li...

http://www.limesurvey.org






Am 21.01.2012 20:43, schrieb Thomas White:
> Perhaps the full history isn't needed,. but certainly at least from 
> 1.90 (or 1.91), and possibly even 1.87 (since some people have liked 
>  aspects of it better than 1.90)
>
> /Tom
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Julian Gilbey <ju...@d-... 
> <mailto:ju...@d-...>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 08:31:14PM +0530, Shitiz Garg wrote:
>     > And moving to github doesn't take much resources, it does take a
>     bit of time since importing 11k+ commits over 10+ branches will
>     take quite a bit of time.
>
>     As a quiet lurker, I wonder: is there any need to import all of the
>     history to git?  Surely the svn repository can remain for historical
>     purposes, and the git repository can be used from now on?
>