Re: Working with git-svn or hgsubversion (was: Move part of macports infrastructure to GitHub)

2014-03-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 16, 2014, at 17:18, Rainer Müller wrote: a) No support for svn:ignore property Easy to accomplish, we would just keep the equivalent in .gitignore and .hgignore files in the repository root. The svn:ignore property would still be the authoritative value. As these are barely set at

Working with git-svn or hgsubversion (was: Move part of macports infrastructure to GitHub)

2014-03-16 Thread Rainer Müller
On 2014-03-16 19:42, Sean Farley wrote: If MacPorts really wants to switch to distributed version control, then I would suggest Mercurial. I have experimented with using Mercurial for the MacPorts repo and found that the mercurial UI is much, much more consistent than git coming from

Re: Working with git-svn or hgsubversion (was: Move part of macports infrastructure to GitHub)

2014-03-16 Thread Clemens Lang
Hi, I'd like to chime in and offer my $.02. I'll try to keep it brief though, because nobody wants to read thousands of large opinionated posts in this thread if it's supposed to go somewhere. I think the popularity gives git the clear advantage over mercurial or any of the other systems.