I think I speak for all the other mrunit committers when I say we're
happy to be the guinea pigs on this.

On May 6, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05/05/11 18:52, Todd Lipcon wrote:
>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Eric Yang<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>> Git is powerful in maintaining different branch of the source code.
>>>  However, it will only work if the entire community is willing to move to
>>> git.  Maintaining svn and git hybrid, is a time consuming task that we are
>>> paying in full price.  Hadoop community should work smarter for the source
>>> control.  What do people think about fully adopting git instead of svn?
>>>
>>
>> +1 for Git as a tool. But using git makes it even _more_ important that we
>> have a clearly defined release process that outlines which branches are
>> meant to be released as official artifacts, and what the inclusion criteria
>> for those branches should be.
>>
>
> I'm +0.9995 for git: some bits I like, some bits I don't (it's awful for 
> binary data). And you need more than just a release process locked down, you 
> need the developers understanding following a good process. If you have 
> written down process docs there, I'd love to see them.
>
> apache infrastructure are discussing git -what would be best would be to 
> start with a non-critical project, such as one or more of the moved contrib 
> projects (like MR-Unit), so we can see that it, gerrit, etc work well within 
> the Hadoop developer world.
>
>
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