Re: Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-16 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: The tracker currently uses Subverion's mixed-revision working copies. It only updates the data automatically not the code. This could be preserved by splitting code and data at conversion time. This split alone might be worth the

Re: Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, September 15, 2014 07:33, Henri Salo wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:06:46PM -0400, micah wrote: My guess is that the only reason that subversion is still used is inertia and that people would be happier with git. However, I'm curious

Re: Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-15 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi I forgot about two more points: One is the sectracker user is subscribed to the commits mailinglists, and the commit messages trigger updates of the tracker. The other thing, the svn checkout is also used for http://security-team.debian.org, but this should be a simple case. I will add all

Re: Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-15 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 15. September 2014, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: What would be the actual benefits of moving to Git and I'm not talking git log, git show, git stash and git branch and cherry-pick...!! Working with a decentralized and fast(!) version control system locally is so much more fun +

Re: Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-15 Thread Florian Weimer
My guess is that the only reason that subversion is still used is inertia and that people would be happier with git. However, I'm curious to know if anyone thinks otherwise? For releasing security advisories, we need the centralized repository to gurantuee uniqness of DSA numbers. I'm also

Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-14 Thread micah
Hello, As it stands now, the security tracker is using subversion. Here are the facts as far as I can tell: . people doing work on the tracker are using svn to commit . h01ger is doing a regular git-svn import of the tracker repository . there is a regular cron job run by joeyh that does the

Re: Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-14 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:06 PM, micah mi...@debian.org wrote: Hello, As it stands now, the security tracker is using subversion. Here are the facts as far as I can tell: . people doing work on the tracker are using svn to commit . h01ger is doing a regular git-svn import of the tracker

Re: Switching the tracker to git

2014-09-14 Thread Henri Salo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:06:46PM -0400, micah wrote: My guess is that the only reason that subversion is still used is inertia and that people would be happier with git. However, I'm curious to know if anyone thinks otherwise? In my experience