[Opensim-dev] under consideration, transitioning to git

[Nebadon Izumi]

to be honest, the windows git tools are not very good, this sounds like it
could potentially bring this project to a screeching halt making this
change, i find the windows git tools less than desirable to have to work
with, its very confusing and from a tester perspective this is going to make
my job much more difficult, at this time because of the lack of Production
level windows GIT tools, i have to -1 this for now.

Neb

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:58 AM, 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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> than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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