On Friday 13 November 2015 07:31:02 D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > > The thing separating me from the proliferation of people on the git > bandwagon is that I'm a truck driver with a liberal arts degree, and I > barely hung on with this project through the change from CVS. > > People who do this stuff for a living see an amazing shiny new toy, and > I just see hard work, confusion, and complication that I want to avoid.
FWIW I used to think *exactly* like you when I saw using SVN, at the time git appeared. Then I had to switch to git, and now I couldn't live without it. It is not a toy, it is a tremendous tool which makes development faster and easier. But I won't try to convince you of all the benefits it brings during development, since I agree that the initial learning curve is a bit steep (and I get these benefits by using git-svn on top of the rosegarden svn, anyway). However what I'm noticing is that with svn-on-sourceforge you also don't get the modern benefits of newer hosting solutions (KDE, github, etc.) which include continuous integration. The benefits of a CI - especially once you have autotests - is huge, because it reduces greatly the risks of regression, so the quality of the software increases immensely. I wonder if there's an easy way to get CI for your SVN repo, that's what I'm after, more than the use of git itself. -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
