[Opensim-dev] under consideration, transitioning to git

[James Stallings II]

As a linux user who has seen the positive impact on the quality of the linux
kernel since git went live for that project (for which git was designed
IIRC), I have to say that we need to give a high priority to adoption of
this tool.

As with any change, the benfits will not be immediate, and not without some
pain. But especially in this case, the benefits are within reach and quite
significant.

I, for one, have hope of making a contribution, as I can develop at my own
pace and synch up/rebase later - and should I happen to make a substantially
significant contribution, it is that much easier for core to incorporate it,
should that be desireable.

I'm all for it.

+1

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Michael Cortez <mcortez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sean Dague wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> I've previously had a chance to work with a distributed version control
> system (Bitkeeper) on an Open Source project, and I felt at the time and
> still do that overall the benefits outweighed the down sides.
>
> There can be a bit of a learning curve, new tools, new terminology and
> if used to it's full potential, new methodologies.  This can be
> daunting, and when the project I previously worked on transitioned from
> to Bitkeeper there was an initial slow down in productivity, but once
> everyone was familiar with the tools -- development accelerated to
> levels that weren't previously possible.
>
> Git won't make all conflicts go away, but it can reduce them
> significantly.  Particularly around areas where file renames and moves
> are occurring.
>
> +1 to Git.
>
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> Michael Cortez
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