On Aug 18, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Jeff Squyres wrote: > That's pretty clever, actually (SVN and git effectively together in the same > repo). Cool! > > However, migrating to git has all the same problems that I mentioned in the > prior email to you. Is Mellanox volunteering to do all the work for > conversion?
I guess I should clarify -- here's what I previously sent to Mike in an off-list email about converting our main SVN repo to something else (e.g., Mercurial or Git). #3 is probably moot if we entirely move to github, but it would be replaced with "migrate all existing users to github" (which is a fair amount of work, too). ----- We have *many* discussions a year or two ago about making Mercurial the primary repo, not SVN, and ultimately rejected it. There's many issues involved: 1. developer learning curve --> certainly not the biggest factor, but definitely a factor --> "rebase" would certainly be a big deal (so that people don't put back a million intermediate commits) 2. adapting all of OMPI's current scripting to use hg (or git) --> this is a fair amount of work 3. getting IU to host git instead of SVN --> they have a whole management system for SVN: users, permissions, etc. No such thing exists for git. 4. integrating Trac with git. Or migrating to a whole new bug tracker that supports git. --> this is an entire conversation in itself. Note that everyone hates bugzilla. 5. re-writing the SVN history to find all references to "rXXX" in commit messages and replace them with the relevant hg (git) unique commit hash --> someone would have to figure out how to script that So conversion would be a significant amount of work. Instead, we opted for our current modes of operation, which seem to be working well enough: - use the hg+svn or git+svn combo mechanisms to do actual development in hg/git and then push back up to svn when done - provide hg (and now git) official mirrors so that people can branch/clone from there, and then provide patches to commit when done with development In short -- I agree with you: moving to 100% hg/git would be nice. But it would be a lot of work that no one was willing to spend the time to do. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
