On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:00:52 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > > [..] > > > Solution B: migrate to a version control system that does not have such an > > overhead for tags. > > Hmmm, smells like you want to start a VCS flamewar. ;-) > IMHO we should not rush really fast into this direction. I'm currently start > to sneak into git (with my personal "hello world"-package xteddy) and try to > gather some experiences. I'm afraid that several people will not really like > to be forced to switch their VCS - at least it just drains some time to learn > from people. I've tried git with different teams -- and I feel really uncomfortable with it. It really seems like "giving the pieces, and letting developers build their own plane" [0] to me. [0] > > Problem with solution B is that typical alternatives to Subversion do not > > have partial checkout facilities. > > I do not really understand what you mean with "typical alternatives to > Subversion". IMHO we should switch to a DVCS (if we switch at all) which is > perhaps not "typical" because Subversion is no DVCS. I believe SVN could be kept -- just change the repository layout. Look at pkg-perl: they have far more packages than us, but are using SVN. IMHO solution A proposed by Charles is best: people don't have to learn another $vcs :) > > As you may have guessed, it would probably be a good opportunity to switch > > to git if we agree that it is worth the effort. > > If there is a consensus that might direct into "Solution B" I would propose a > "soft migration path" which allows both repositories for a (perhaps long) > transition period. Debian Science also allows both. Argh, git! :) Ok, that would probably mean some learning period for me. I'm currently using SVN for all my personal projects, and am not really comfortable learning git -- but hey, everyone's using that, kernel hackers are using that, we are going to use that, it *must* have something good :) [1] [1] (the only thing I saw about git over svn is *speed*...) Just my (worthless probably) 0.02€, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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