Interesting topic.
I'd be interested in learning what would be made infinitely better.
But SVN shortcomings aren't on my top 10 hadoop issues yet.
I'd be interested in hearing from folks who think they this would be
very valuable.
But I agree with doug. Too much leverage in using Apache's
infrastructure to make this appealing.
On Jul 30, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Doug Cutting wrote:
Jeff Hammerbacher wrote:
> so we're starting to really use hadoop heavily here at facebook,
and we'd
> like to start contributing back to the hadoop trunk. we've been
through
> this process before (contributing heavily to an actively
developed open
> source project) with memached, and the guy who owns the trunk of
that
> project is quite the SCM nut who says that his life has been made
infinitely
> more pleasant by switching from svn to git for version control with
> memcached.
>
> i'm not suggesting the project be moved tomorrow. i just wanted
to throw
> the question out there to get a sense of how others feel about
git as an SCM
> tool.
The project has a fair amount of culture built around subversion.
Also,
Apache's infrastructure currently supports subversion, not git, so we
would have to either manage our own repository, which is not
encouraged,
or make git a supported part of Apache's infrastructure, which is
rather
outside the scope of Hadoop. So we could potentially move to a
different SCM, but someone would have to make a very compelling case
before that would become a project priority.
Doug
