Re: moving to git !?

2018-11-06 Thread Dave Fisher
One difference which we may want to consider. With SVN you can checkout parts of the repository, but with GIT you get the whole thing. We may want to be careful and split things up like for example the 3rd party archives. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 5, 2018, at 10:16 PM,

Re: moving to git !?

2018-11-06 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi Patricia, Am 06.11.18 um 06:16 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > I am going to have to learn git. No big deal - revision control > systems go out of fashion every few years and it becomes time to learn > a currently fashionable one. > > Can you recommend a book or tutorial? I've used RCS and SCCS

Re: moving to git !?

2018-11-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
FWIW, it is very easy to request: https://gitbox.apache.org/setup/newrepo.html > On Nov 6, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > To be clear, we're talking about moving to Gitbox, right? > >> On Nov 5, 2018, at 5:37 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> We had the

Re: moving to git !?

2018-11-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
To be clear, we're talking about moving to Gitbox, right? > On Nov 5, 2018, at 5:37 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > Hello all, > > We had the discussion 1 year ago to move to git. For me it was a clear > vote for this move. However nothing happened when we released 4.1.4. > >

Re: moving to git !?

2018-11-05 Thread Peter Kovacs
Maybe it is nice to be aware on the differences between svn and git [0] As a quick start comparison of commands is helpful [1] For Windows there is also a tortoise client [2]. However if you use tortoise for svn too, be careful. Last time I wanted to use both I had some trouble. github [3] and

Re: moving to git !?

2018-11-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I am going to have to learn git. No big deal - revision control systems go out of fashion every few years and it becomes time to learn a currently fashionable one. Can you recommend a book or tutorial? I've used RCS and SCCS as well as, obviously, Subversion. On 11/5/2018 2:37 PM, Peter

moving to git !?

2018-11-05 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hello all, We had the discussion 1 year ago to move to git. For me it was a clear vote for this move. However nothing happened when we released 4.1.4. https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4db20d193cc30850e63dc03378a20462d1e5c113e566fffd6c776d1c@%3Cdev.openoffice.apache.org%3E It was somewhat