Thanks Igor. One little question: is it possible that when someone commits on svn, it automatically commits also in git ?
thanks mariano On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, community > > (preface) there was a discussion about using git for VM sources and > recently in pharo team, we are also discussed that, and decided to go > on. > So i started to look for an options and found that Gitorious is best > solution for us all. > In contrast to github, it doesn't charging users when their repository > grow beyond 300Mb in size. > And its totally free for open-source projects. > > To be sure, that i understood thing well, i even sent mail to support > to clarify some aspects of their policy and got following in answer: > > <<<< quote start > > I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am about this! Smalltalk is > the coolest thing I know about computers, and I love what you have > done with Squeak, thanks! > > <... skip technical details ...> > > The short version: go ahead! I'm really pleased you want to use > Gitorious and I hope you'll be satisfied! > > Cheers, > - Marius > > >>>>>> quote end. > > > So, after such warm welcome, the choice was obvious :) > I made a mirrors of SVN repositories for Squeak VM and Cog VM > on gitorious.org. > > i created a group named: squeak-vm-developers > http://gitorious.org/+squeak-vm-developers > > this group owns two projects: > Squeak VM (http://gitorious.org/squeak-vm) > and Cog VM (http://gitorious.org/cogvm) > > Any member(s) of group having an admin access to these projects , and > commit rights to projects 'blessed' repositories: > > http://gitorious.org/cogvm/blessed > http://gitorious.org/squeak-vm/blessed > > (yes, a single project could have multiple repositories, but for start > we will use just one - a blessed ;) > > Now what any people from street can do: > - register @ gitorious.org > - go to /cogvm/blessed or /squeak-vm/blessed > - click magic 'clone repository' button > and from now you will have a fresh copy of 'official' repository, > ready for hacking in your own corner, > where you are the all powerful deity and can do anything you want > without asking anyone. > > That's the main reason for migrating to git-based hosting: > - easy for getting in > - no additional administration costs > - people can easily exchange the results of their own experiments > without putting an 'official' repository in danger. > > @(John, Elior, Ian & other currently active SVN users) note: There is > no pressure for migrating to git-based source code management. > > if you keep using SVN, no problem. I will take care with refreshing a > blessed repo(s) with SVN commits. > > But if you want to migrate, ask me, and i will add you to > 'squeak-vm-developers' group. Note that this group serves only for > managing > and official 'blessed' repos, and if you don't want participate, you > can just live in own corner as anyone else can. This doesn't make much > difference anyways :) > > I just wanna tell, that from now i will use own clone(s) of 'blessed' > repos for experiments and of course i encouraging everyone, > who wants to start hacking VM(s) to do the same. > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko AKA sig. >
