[Opensim-dev] Main Repository now in Git

[Chris Hart]

Nice work on handling all this - seems like an epic task!

Thinking in terms of people who use stable branches from svn, how is this going to change in future? I see that the svn 0.6.6-post-fixes branch still exists, but where would I go if there was an important fix, change or update to that codebase? Is that going to be maintained until the next stable tag - and what is a stable tag under this system?


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From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Sean Dague
Sent: 04 August 2009 02:05
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de; opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
Subject: [Opensim-dev] Main Repository now in Git

We've now transitioned the main active source repository to git, all the documentation is not yet updated, but there is a basic document on using git at http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Using_Git.  Over the next week the rest of the wiki should be cleaned up to match that.

In order to provide minimal impact on our user base there is now a new subversion mirror of the git working repository.  That can be checked out with: svn co http://opensimulator.org/svn/opensim-track/trunk.  It is a changeset by changeset tracking repo on unstable upstream git for opensim (it may be delayed by up to 15 minutes, but will contain all the same content).  It starts mirroring at version 10001.

The existing http://opensimulator.org/svn/opensim svn will no longer be getting any commits.  If you would like to continue using svn for anonymous checkout of trunk, please switch to the opensim-track repository.

Users are encouraged to explore using git.  One of the reasons for the switch is that it makes it easier for our non core contributors to contribute more complex code, as everyone gets to use an equivalent toolchain, core or not.

There will probably be a few more bumps along the road, but the transition today went relatively smoothly.  Questions are always welcomed as we come through the transition.

	-Sean

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