Re: Switching the tracker to git

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

> My guess is that the only reason that subversion is still used is
> inertia and that people would be happier with git. However, I'm curious
> to know if anyone thinks otherwise?

For releasing security advisories, we need the centralized repository
to gurantuee uniqness of DSA numbers.

I'm also worried that people will make more local commits without
pushing immediately, duplicating work.  But perhaps these concerns are
unfounded.

The tracker currently uses Subverion's mixed-revision working copies.
It only updates the data automatically not the code.  This could be
preserved by splitting code and data at conversion time.  This split
alone might be worth the conversion.