On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:53:49 +0200 Bruno Kleinert <fuddl@tauware.de> wrote: > Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 15:57 +0100 schrieb Jon Dowland: > > Last year Barry posted a question about whether we were > > going to stick with svn or move to git: > > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-games/2008/11/msg00010.html> > > > > What I would like to ask is, which of the two should we > > *encourage* the use of. I would suggest git for new > > packages. It would be good to standardise on *encouraging* > > one (not demanding nor migrating to it) for the purposes of > > our wiki documentation. > I'm with you, except, that I would *really strongly* encourage git and > have Subversion as very, very optional option ;) > > I think Subversion could be used by those who joined the team but are > not familiar with a version control system, because I consider > Subversion easier to learn and understand. But once familiar how > things work, we should ask to switch over to git. That's simply my > opinion. > > Cheers - Fuddl Being reasonably familiar with SVN/BZR, I find GIT to be an absolute horror to learn (Its taking me ... some time). While I won't claim this as absolute evidence, I suspect learning SVN then moving to GIT is harder then simply learning GIT. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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