[Opensim-dev] Main Repository now in Git

[Ursula MATOVA]

Sure you're right ... let's go to "git" then :)

But, is it possible to change the "OpenSim Commits" posts ?
Really, it's un-useful and unreadable ...

Regards,
Ursula.
> Ursula MATOVA wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just my comment on the use of "git" instead of "svn" ...
>> ... Was so simple for us ( "non - core-devs" ) when it was on subversion 
>> ...
>>
>> I've read the git documentation, and sure many many feature are 
>> interresting for active core-devs, but ...
>>
>> - The details posted on OpenSim Commits list are so uggly, and 
>> unreadable ... Was really better before, the diffs were included in the 
>> mail ... was helpful, because we were able to see what has changed in a 
>> commit, the post "Subject" isn't clear at all ( maybe it's because the 
>> transition between svn & git is not finished yet ),
>> - About, "revisions" ... now, it's impossible to know what release 
>> number is "current" ...
>> (( As somebody mentioned here, all my scripts performing an automatic 
>> upgrade are now broken :( ))
>>
>> Anyway, that doesn't change the quality of the work done :D
>> ... that will only make our task harder to maintain our opensim servers ...
>>
>> The only thing is that "svn" if more "user-friendly" than "git",
>>     
>
> as somehow who has suffered from the many many quirks of svn --- and was a firm
> disbeliever in git when sean "evangelized" it in the IBM opensim community way
> back when --- i've since come to LOVE git. sure it's different (but then cars
> are different to horse-drawn coaches :-) and, yes, i can sympathize with the
> "release naming issue" --- but i've to say, it's much more user friendly because
> i as a user of it have considerable less problems with it and have in fact more
> freedom to work MY workflow instead of having to bow to SVN.
>
> just my CHF 0.02 ;-)
>
> 	cheers,
> 	drs/dirk
>
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