On Mon, Apr 28, 2014, JonY wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mingw-w64 may migrate from svn to git in the future, seeing that sf can
> now do multiple repos per project.
> 
> Structure wise, everything under trunk will still stay together in the
> new repo, but any externals, /experimental/* and /web may move into its
> own repo.
> 
> Discuss.
> 

Stating here a few things I mentionned on IRC.


I think it would be better to only do the switch after the next point
release since it could happen soonish (but this is Ozkan's decision). Of
course that doesn't prevent initial work on the matter.


A subdirectory of an SVN repository is a valid SVN repository. This is
not true with git repositories. This prevents tracking only parts of
other repositories like it has been done with ReactOS.


Git doesn't have SVN's externals; it has "remotes": paths to branches on
other repositories. Some of the use cases are the same for both but
there are large differences.


IIRC git doesn't have per-file attributes like eol-style and mime type.
Are they really needed? Should it be only LF for every file(*)?
(*) this would break editing the files under notepad and probably only
notepad, i.e. that would be a feature :) 


I think that's it for now.

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