Hi Denis,

Here are some disadvantages from my perspective:

- everyone needs to learn it and become productive enough with it
- we need to change our jira setup to use git, presumably this needs to
  be done with cru as well
- all of the docs that are svn explicit need to be changed to git
  explicit
- all of scripting that we have written (which is not tonnes, but some)
  would need to be redone

Most of the advantages of Git exist with SVN too.  For instance, these
are all true with SVN:

> - better access, easier to join development for new developers
>      - work on their own repository
>      - push to shared repository when ready
>      - many developers work in different countries simultaneously
> - security:
>      - immediately after the repository clone, there is basically no 
> information about that project that the server you cloned from has
> that you do not have (including ALL changes and revisions)
>      - every person working on your project has what is essentially a 
> full backup of the project data

I'm not really anti-git, it seems fine enough.  I'm anti-change for
changes' sake; our velocity is already low and our processes are
just getting cemented (finally) with SVN.  I don't want to slow
development down any further.

I'd be against changing while we have a release in the pipe.  I see
changing as just another distraction on getting the software going,
unless everyone developing on the project was already familiar with
git.  I'd be more relaxed about this between releases, but want anyone
who thinks it would slow them down to announce that clearly; if enough
would lose cycles on this then the wins just aren't significant to me.

Chris
-- 
Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc
ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan

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