+1, Git is more convenient for development and we can switch easily between branches and can have local branches.
Regards, Yi Liu -----Original Message----- From: Karthik Kambatla [mailto:ka...@cloudera.com] Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2014 7:44 AM To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org; hdfs-...@hadoop.apache.org; mapreduce-...@hadoop.apache.org; yarn-...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: [DISCUSS] Migrate from svn to git for source control? Hi folks, From what I hear, a lot of devs use the git mirror for development/reviews and use subversion primarily for checking code in. I was wondering if it would make more sense just to move to git. In addition to subjective liking of git, I see the following advantages in our workflow: 1. Feature branches - it becomes easier to work on them and keep rebasing against the latest trunk. 2. Cherry-picks between branches automatically ensures the exact same commit message and tracks the lineage as well. 3. When cutting new branches and/or updating maven versions etc., it allows doing all the work locally before pushing it to the main branch. 4. Opens us up to potentially using other code-review tools. (Gerrit?) 5. It is just more convenient. I am sure this was brought up before in different capacities. I believe the support for git in ASF is healthy now and several downstream projects have moved. Again, from what I hear, ASF INFRA folks make the migration process fairly easy. What do you all think? Thanks Karthik
