On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 11:23 -0800, Jordan Justen wrote: > > The data we will never have is how many people avoid getting involved > in the project because it uses svn rather than git. I think if it were > possible to measure this, it would favor git compared to svn.
FWIW as a purely anecdotal data point, I *often* avoid projects that are in Subversion. I'll use git-svn if I'm *really* motivated to work on a particular project (as I was in this case), but often I'll just move on. Given that it took 5 days or so to clone the EDK2 repo with git-svn, I probably would have just given up completely. The thing with git (or indeed any distributed version control system) is that it makes it easy to move patches around between version control systems. We have a bunch of people doing their own thing *based* on EDK2, and anything we can do to improve the flow of changes in both directions would be good for everyone concerned. Using a non-distributed version control system is very much *not* what we want, I think. I'm pleased to see that Microsoft tools will be supporting git too; that was one of the potential sticking points — and why I didn't really *mean* to start this conversation; I was really just asking about ways to locally work around some of the pain of Subversion, to start with :) -- dwmw2
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