Re: [Opensg-users] github [was down the drain]

[Johannes B. <joh...@ig...>]

Hi,

>> 
>> However, I'd love to see github.com being used instead of SVN, as it's 
>> much easier to maintain own changes, submit fixes for bugs and for 
>> core-devs to pull & integrate patches.
> 
> I already mirror the current svn master on github because of the
> ongoing website problems. Currently I do that manually but I could
> automate it in the future (e.g. cron scripted once an hour or so).
> 
> I'm still a little hesitant to move everything to git as you can
> do to many weird things to a tree. For now a linear system like
> svn seems safer.

Agree. We just should recover the svn/trac environment and
not come up with yet another solution.

regards
johannes

> For maintaining own changes it should actually
> make no difference (git fetch vs. git-svn fetch). 
> 
> The pulling and integrating patches part I can see. Could we start
> with a double system where I provide and update a github mirror which
> people can clone and we (I) can pull & integrate patches from.
> 
> 
> As you can merge multiple git source trees into one from my
> side this should not be a problem. I push both the svn and
> git repositories from the same master git tree on my system.
> 
> kind regards
>  gerrit
> 
> 
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