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RE: [avr-libc-dev] What about moving to SVN?


From: Weddington, Eric
Subject: RE: [avr-libc-dev] What about moving to SVN?
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:50:42 -0600

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden
> org] On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:19 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] What about moving to SVN?
> 
> As Clemens Koller wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I missed some discussions but did you consider moving towards
> > Git as a distributed SCM tool?
> 
> Nobody ever brought that up when we discussed it previously (while
> switching to SVN has been requested).  I don't see any real advantage
> either, although I confess I never got the hang of git.  But where to
> stop then, why Git and not Mercurial instead?
> 
> SVN is at least a logical choice as it comes with the smallest set of
> differences compared to CVS, so the amount of things to learn anew for
> developers who are used to CVS is fairly small.
> 
> Before being in need for a distributed version control system, I think
> the project were in need for much more active developers first.  I've
> been working on a project using centralized VCSes for many years,
> where there are several hundred developers with write access
> distributed worldwide (FreeBSD), but the centralized repository has
> never been a real bottleneck.
> 
> (Active developers can always get a local copy of the repository by
> rsync if they want.)

I agree with Joerg 110%.

There is no use arguing about which revision control system to use if you're 
not a developer on the project. And we always welcome more developers.




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