[Opensim-dev] under consideration, transitioning to git

[Melvin Carvalho]

+1

Been using git for a while, and after you get over the inital learning
curve, things are MUCH easier in the long term

Works very well for me on windows too, ive been using visa win2k and XP

Git is also well suited to storing more than just source code, it can
use its BLOB file store for assets too, should you wish, which become
instantly distriubted

www.github.com offer 300MB of free space, there's also
http://gitorious.org/ but you may want to host the core yourself,
which isnt hard

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sean Dague<sdague at gmail.com> wrote:
> The OpenSim core team is currently evaluating a transition of the
> opensim project from subversion to git.  This is not a new idea, many of
> us on the Linux side have proposed this previously (many of us on the
> Linux side are already using git via the git-svn bridge for our opensim
> development).  The challenge has really been that the windows git story
> was really poor.  But recently, that got a lot better.
>
> I'm starting to put together some instructions on using git, including
> some of the stardard workflow at http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Using_Git
>
> The instructions are currently slightly core centric, but the repository
> can also be cloned anonymously via the url
> git://opensimulator.org/git/opensim-test.  This is a git snapshot of the
> opensim repo as of yesterday.  It's designed for developers to play
> around with, so expect it to be broken for the purposes of running
> OpenSim, but useful for just figuring out things with git.
>
> For the git mirror of svn trunk we set up viewgit already
> (http://opensimulator.org/viewgit).  I just added the opensim-test
> repository there as well.
>
> My hope is championing this is that it will make it easier to have
> multiple people actively working on core features in opensim (as
> conflict resolution is much easier with git), and make it easier for non
> core people to contribute more advanced function, as work can be staged
> and rebased externally.  (I've written up thoughts on this in the past
> at
> http://dague.net/2009/04/28/software-in-the-era-of-drive-by-contribution/)
>
> Comments as always are welcomed.  As with any potential change, there
> will be bumps in the road, and some things will need to be relearned.
> But I think it is worth it for many of the new abilities we'll get with git.
>
>        -Sean
>
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