On May 4, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Allison Randal wrote: > On 5/4/10 9:26 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:03:23PM +0100, Allison Randal wrote: >>> >>> What I don't understand is what advantage we gain from >>> using git as the central data-store. >> >> Speed. Performing git clones of svn repositories is extremely painful >> and wasteful of resources. > > Ah, that makes sense. When people talked about "speed" in the IRC discussion > it really didn't make sense, as svn and git are about equivalent in > day-to-day usage terms. But the git-svn link being slow I can see. > >> I know we can make use of various mirrors for this, and I'd be fine >> with that as long as there's one that has something of an "officially >> sanctioned" designation and support. So far I haven't seen that for >> Parrot (but perhaps I'm simply out of date here). > > There isn't one at the moment. That could be a reasonable compromise, or a > reasonable stage in a larger migration plan. > > Allison
Re: migration from svn to git, Jonathan Leto pointed out svn2git (C++/Qt version on gitorious, not the ruby one on github), which has helped our group tremendously in migration efforts. There isn't much in the way of documentation, but it worked very quickly and allows rules for some flexibility. chris _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
