I thought we already had a git mirror for the svn repo for Derby. I thought Knut Anders already used it quite successfully for his contributions.
Perhaps he will respond to this email with more details? If not, I can probably search the archives. bryan On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 4:20 PM Alex O'Ree <alexo...@apache.org> wrote: > > I wasn't at first either. It seems unnecessary at a glance. It does greatly > simplify accepting contributions from users without commit rights. For > outside committers, they can commit as much as they need to without affecting > the baseline. Which makes things much easier for larger tasks. Pull requests > and code reviews are much simpler than reviewing a patch file. In general, > merging branches is less painful. Just my 2 cents. History is maintained with > the conversion, in case that's a concern. > > So as someone that wants to contribute to this project, I'm asking the > question because it would make my life easier. > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:05 AM Rick Hillegas <rick.hille...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On 12/16/18 4:16 PM, Alex O'Ree wrote: >> > Has anyone suggested switching to git? ASF makes the change pretty >> > painless >> >> I'm not a git enthusiast. >>
