Sorry, I mixed this up with a recent discussion on the CouchDB mailing list [1]. No full git support for now (not yet).
Regards Ansgar [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201108.mbox/thread Am 16.08.2011 23:01, schrieb Nick Burch: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Ansgar Konermann wrote: >>> on hg locally if they want to, but SVN will need to be the canonical >>> store >> >> Apache announced initial support for git a week ago or so, at least >> for beta usage. > > Are you sure about that? For some time now, Apache has supported read > only git mirrors of the svn codebases. This allows people who wish to > work on Apache projects using git to do so, but all patches need to be > committed into svn. > > (I think there was a change done by Jukka a week or two back, whereby > when someone sends a push request on github for an Apache git mirror, > the project gets notified) > >> I'm convinced a dvcs will facilitate contributing to odftoolkit a >> lot, so please let's at least *try* to get a dvcs right from the start. > > People who want to can take a clone of the repo, work on it, produce a > patch and send it in. It then gets reviewed by a committer, and > applied if appropriate. No real difference whether the patch was > produced by git or hg or svn > >> I know two of my co workers have a number of patches ready for >> contribution to simple api, but going back to svn will likely >> distract them. > > They don't need to. See above > > > If you're interested in seeing further git support at Apache, then I'd > suggest you have a read through the plan: > https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/infrastructure/trunk/projects/git/THE-PLAN-SO-FAR > > and then start volunteering to help with some of the tasks. > > Nick
