On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Benson, > > am I right that the reverse direction would be using "git svn"?
For a committer, yes. For someone just offering patches, it's attaching them to JIRA, or emailing them to the list. There's a web page explaining how to clone a git.apache.org repo, and then tweak it so that you can go on from there with git svn. > > Dan > > > On 12 June 2012 14:06, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You can do that without moving. Ask infra to set up a git.apache.org >> mirror of isis. Then he can clone that. The reverse direction is not >> as convenient, but it's not awful. >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Dan Haywood >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 11 June 2012 14:31, Mark Struberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi! >> >> >> >> We use git in DeltaSpike. The question is how much benefit it would >> bring >> >> for Isis. >> >> >> > >> > I'm about to kick off a new project that is going to be using Isis, with >> > the resultant app also being licensed as open source. We'll probably be >> > using github or similar for that. >> > >> > As a consequence of the project, there are likely to be a number of >> > enhancements/fixes to Isis itself. I was thinking that if Isis is hosted >> > on Git, then I can get the guy I'm working with sign an ICLA and thus be >> > able to "git pull" in any changes he might make on his clone of Isis. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> Git is really nice for some use cases but not so nice for others. E.g. >> no >> >> native line-ending conversion support, no binary support, etc >> >> >> > >> > I think that there is reasonable support here. I was going to mention >> > core.autocrlf property, but a quick google also threw up the >> .gitattributes >> > file, see [1] >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> I've written up a comparison here: >> >> >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/SVNvsGIT >> >> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Git_At_Apache_Guide >> >> >> >> >> > Thanks for this; read with interest. >> > >> > >> > >> >> It's quite some work and a few things like Jira commit tracking still >> >> doesn't work. >> >> >> >> >> >> LieGrue, >> >> strub >> >> >> >> >> > Thanks, >> > Dan >> > >> > [1] http://timclem.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/mind-the-end-of-your-line/ >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> > From: Benson Margulies <[email protected]> >> >> > To: [email protected] >> >> > Cc: >> >> > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 3:13 PM >> >> > Subject: Re: move to git? >> >> > >> >> > infra is supporting git. At last reading, there was a tax. If you want >> >> > to use git, you have to provide a volunteer to continue the >> >> > infrastructure work. I haven't seen much lately. There are a couple of >> >> > example projects using git (couchdb?) you might want to sniff around >> >> > their situation. >> >> > >> >> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Mike Burton <[email protected] >> > >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> 1. +1 >> >> >> >> >> >> Best Regards >> >> >> >> >> >> Mike Burton >> >> >> (Sent from my iPhone) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 11 Jun 2012, at 13:28, Dan Haywood <[email protected] >> > >> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>> Two questions: >> >> >>> >> >> >>> 1. for Isis developers ... how do you feel about moving Isis to use >> >> git >> >> >>> rather than svn? I think it'd be worth considering, because git is >> >> >>> generally considered easier to allow patches to be provided ("pull >> >> >>> requests"). >> >> >>> >> >> >>> 2. for mentors ... does anyone know what ASF's current support is >> >> > for git? >> >> >>> I can see there's git-wip-us.apache.org, and also clones over on >> >> >>> github.org/apache. Is anyone up to date on the status of ASF's >> >> > support? >> >> >>> >> >> >>> Thx >> >> >>> Dan >> >> > >> >> >>
