Hi Vincent! > http://git.apache.org/ > Using GIT in write mode sounds like a normal step. These are only git mirrors of our SVN and not intended to push to them but to use dcommit.
So this is cool for quickly download/going offline with the whole project history but not enough for real collaboration. > Does Maven SCM support *fully* GIT? mvn release:prepare and release:perform is working with git since more than a year now. The only uncertain point is how we should handle multi-module builds. LieGrue, strub --- Vincent Siveton <vincent.sive...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do, 23.4.2009: > Von: Vincent Siveton <vincent.sive...@gmail.com> > Betreff: Re: Using GIT as the canonical repository for Maven 3.x > An: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org> > Datum: Donnerstag, 23. April 2009, 23:48 > Hi, > > GIT is already proposed by infrastructure in read only > mode > http://git.apache.org/ > Using GIT in write mode sounds like a normal step. > > Does Maven SCM support *fully* GIT? I think specially for > some plugins > like the release plugin > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > > 2009/4/23 Jason van Zyl <jvan...@sonatype.com>: > > Hi, > > > > Maven was the first project at Apache to use JIRA and > though there was a > > great deal of concern/noise about using JIRA it > ultimately proved to be a > > decent system and now lots of projects are using > JIRA. > > > > I'm not particularly interested in mandating > everything in Maven to use GIT > > but I would like to pilot the use of GIT as the > canonical repository for > > Maven 3.x and wanted to see what others thought. > > > > I believe that GIT is going to be the dominant SCM in > the very near future > > because the distributed nature is so much more inline > with the way OSS > > should work. Anyone can get a complete copy of our > work and it is much > > easier to absorb those changes. There are many > examples now on the net > > demonstrating projects that have switched to GIT and > their communities have > > flourished as a result. > > > > We are also seeing the rise of Java implementations of > GIT and to me this > > means there are going to be an order of magnitude more > developers able to > > work on the core system. JGIT, which is being > developed primarily by Shawn > > Pearce @ Google, is awesome. I actually have been > participating in helping > > with the build for JGIT and I've been working with > Peter Royal to create a > > MINA SSHD wrapper around JGIT using JSecurity for > authentication and it's so > > easy. Peter cranked out a working prototype in 3 > hours. This simply is not > > possible with C-based systems like Subversion which is > essentially a closed > > box or generally uninteresting to Java developers. > JGIT along with Gerrit > > (an awesome code review tool Shawn Pearce is working > on) is being used by > > the Google Android team and it's working well (I'm > meeting with Shawn Pearce > > today to chat) so I think we have evidence this > works. > > > > I'd be happy if everyone here wanted to use GIT but I > do believe that I have > > a better chance of getting people involved with Maven > 3.x if I can get the > > canonical repository in GIT. > > > > In the Maven project we set precedent with JIRA and > now I would like to do > > that with GIT. > > > > If Apache Infrastructure doesn't want to support this > then I feel we can do > > the same thing we did with JIRA until they catch up. I > think having a > > canonical repository at Github is safe, well backed up > and maintained and I > > don't think we would have to worry about anything > there. They have full-time > > staff and a slew of engineers so I would even argue > that a repository at > > Github would be just as safe and well maintained as a > Subversion repository > > here. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Jason van Zyl > > Founder, Apache Maven > > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a > rational > > and technical order to justify his work and to be > justified in it. > > > > -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
