[webkit-dev] Moving to Git?

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 19:39 -0300, Alexis Menard wrote:
> > To svn user :
> > - Conflict resolving much easier and performant than svn (we have
> > drivers for changelogs and the default one are much better than svn).
> > - Local history/blaming/...
> > - Proper diff coloration (though I'm sure you guys have some magic
> > scripts using colordiff).
> > - The staging area, upload what you want/need and keep some work local
> > - Smaller checkouts
> 
> - Bot maintainers :
> Power outage or network interruption in the middle of a svn
> checkout/up lock the repo sometimes and you need to manually svn
> cleanup the checkout (maybe someone have a tool or script to avoid
> that???). I had much more svn locked repos than git dead checkout
> because of interruptions.

/me puts his bot maintainer hat on

That does suck indeed. Been a while since I had to manually intervene,
but even when it is fixed automatically, the new checkout takes ages
(because the automatic fix is to rm -rf the whole source tree).

That said, we don't need to change the main repository to have bots use
git - we can use a git mirror for most bot needs without changing the
main repository.

Cheers,

-- 
Gustavo Noronha Silva <gns at gnome.org>
GNOME Project