Paul Wise schrieb: > While I love git for development (and have switched every upstream > project I could to it), I prefer subversion for Debian packaging at > this time. I also feel keeping SVN makes it easier to join the team > for people with no initial technical skills. Hi all! I'm not sure it is true. I totally agree git is adding unneeded complexity (multiple remotes to follow e.g.) and has some features that might be handy but add complexity (local commits). However Git gives you a perfectly dpkg-buildpackage buildable checkout while svn doesn't and works around some mayour pitfalls (things I still get caught like rm and mv should *never* be done but "svn rm" or "svn mv"). I think it's really a major help that you can just follow the new-maintainer's guide on a git repo and use standard posix filesystem commands without breaking stuff, especially for newcomers. I have a way longer email in work which may also end up as a blog post with lots of additional details if someone is interested. Regards Christoph -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon : GPG-Key ID: 0x0372275D \ / Campaign : GPG 4096R : 0xD49AE731 X against HTML : Debian NM / \ in eMails : http://www.debian.org/ http://www.christoph-egger.org/
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