On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please note that using git is not supported by infrastructure. There > have been some very heated discussions about it, and I'm not going to > repeat that here. See for example general@ archives [1] to learn more > about Apache's hesitance regarding git usage. > > Taken from this discussion, Noel Bergmann summarizes Apache's > hesitance to DSCM's best [2]: > > "[W]e want our development to be visible to the Community, not done in > private and committed when finished. Developers can always make more > or less transient branches to work on code, still in public view, and > merge back to shared locations." > > Given the controversy of using distributed SCM's within Apache I > advise you to stop promoting git usage during incubation. > As far as I can tell, Assaf is not proposing to migrate away from the SVN central server, just offering an easy solution for people who'd want to do some experimental developments. What could be wrong with that? AFAICT it's definitely a best practice in open source. Cheers, Matthieu > > Martijn > > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg16799.html > [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg16828.html >
