[josm-dev] Discussion about Git (was: Apache mpoved to git, broken SVN external)

Zitat von Dirk Stöcker : Same issue. I've seen many external hosters dying over time (sourceforge does this right now finally), so relying on an external hoster when we can do it ourself easily is not a good idea. I agree. But the selection of a hoster is a

Re: [josm-dev] Discussion about Git

On 31/08/15 16:43, Bodo Meissner wrote: > > I started with RCS, have used several version control tools, and am > still using CVS, SVN, Git. I prefer Git (or Mercurial). When I have to > use SVN, I try to use it with git-svn if possible. > >> But Git is not a followup to SVN but another

Re: [josm-dev] Apache mpoved to git, broken SVN external

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Paul Wölfel wrote: What about also moving JOSM to a Git repository? Why? You have a Git mirror of JOSM and plugins can already be developed in Git. But the majority is in the SVN repository. Many plugins already are on github and most of the open source projects are

Re: [josm-dev] Apache mpoved to git, broken SVN external

> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Paul Wölfel wrote: > > What about also moving JOSM to a Git repository? >> > > Why? > Local development and committing without network connection, branching, ... A lot of features which are not that easy or possible with SVN. That's also the reason I moved all my projects

Re: [josm-dev] Apache mpoved to git, broken SVN external

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, Paul Wölfel wrote: If we ever move to git as versioning system it will be hosted on JOSM server and not on an external service like GitHub and thus most of the GitHub benefits will not apply. Gitlab is great for hosting private repositories ;-)