Hi, some time ago I enabled the Git SCM hosting service for OpenXPKI on the SourceForge site and added a Git repository for OpenXPKI. This repository (called "openxpki") has been populated with a complete copy of the data in the Subversion repository in the master branch.
For several years now we have been using Git as the primary SCM for OpenXPKI development in our project, and all our commits to the OpenXPKI subversion repository for the past years have been done via the "git svn dcommit" command. A suggestion that keeps coming up among some of the core developers is to move the authoritative code repository from Subversion to Git. One of the most compelling reasons for us to switch to Git, in our opinion, is the better support for branches. This is needed to be able to focus the main branch on working towards OpenXPKI version 1.0 while being able to create a maintenance branch for the current stable 0.9 version. So the question to the current developers is: is there anyone against moving from SVN to Git? If so, please state your case. If there are no objections, we would like to start migration from Subversion to Git. We are aware that we have three major components inherently relying on Subversion: - the version generation tool (vergen) and accordingly the package build scripts that deduce version numbers from revision control. This is mostly fixed already. - the web site contents which are currently checked in as static HTML in the SVN repo and that is updated by the scripts on our web mirrors - the nightly builds for the FreeBSD project Once we have addressed and resolved all these issues I am confident we can safely switch over to Git as the main repository. Cheers Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ OpenXPKI-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openxpki-devel
