#72 Please switch to GIT (or at least SVN)

[Mojca Miklavec]

Dear TikZ developers,

please consider switching to a modern versioning system, preferably GIT, but almost any other would be a lot easier to deal with.

There are a few volunteers like Aditya who sometimes contribute patches and we want to use a version more recent than the distributed version for ConTeXt. It would make our life easier by a huge factor if we could fetch the sources from git as opposed to CVS. Thank you.

[Till Tantau]

I will look into this. The switch to SVN should be straighforward, git might be more trouble (it is not even installed in my system...). I will have to check this with the other developers.

[Kpym]

Dear Developpers, I want to advocate this ticket too.

I know that passing from CSV to Git is not a small business.
But the benefits are big (not so much for you, but for the community ;)).

For example there are a lot of "small" "low priority" bugs, that could be fixed more easily if this project was hosted on github with a stable master branch (corresponding to the last official release) and a dev branch (corresponding to what is your current development work).

I have written a question on Meta.TeX.SX (not the right place to do it, I know) that is in relation with this ticket.

Thanks in advance for considering this feature.

[Franklin Yu]

I want to advocate this ticket too. GitHub is a great place to discuss about improvement of codes for community; it makes viewing codes online easier.

[Paul Gaborit]

I want to advocate this ticket too!