As I understood it, Eric did not want the history to be discarded, and that criterion is satisfied by keeping the frozen svn repository.
One of the reasons I'm in favour of not importing the history into git is that a clean repository is in some ways attractive to new users. I'm in particular thinking of a friend of Paul's who was interested in doing some work on TiddlyWiki, but didn't bother in the end because the repository took so long to download. Now admittedly this probably won't be a big problem with a new core repository, but I still think there is an advantage to making a clean start. What I am wary of here is policy being influenced by people who are not affected by the policy. In other words do Fred and Eric want the history in git because: a) moving the history to git is "a good thing" or b) they actually look at the history quite often, and not moving the history to git would be an inconvenience I'm happily swayed by argument (b), but if the argument is (a) then those who actively use the repository should have more sway. So before we move the history to git based on Fred and Eric's opinions, I'd like them to confirm that they actually do look at the history often enough to be inconvenienced by not moving it. Martin On 7 February 2011 18:19, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Martin Budden wrote: > >> However for the main body of TiddlyWiki, I thought we'd decided *not* >> to import the history. That's certainly my preference. I'm willing to >> be persuaded otherwise, if people feel it is important that we import >> the history, but I'd like that to be made as a conscious decision >> rather than a side effect of how we migrate the codebase. > > I didn't get that impression from the thread. What I saw was that I > and you were not in favor of including history, while FND and Eric > were, and their cases were strong. > > Given that the tools make it easy, and the esteem with which we should > hold FND and Eric's opinions, I figure may as well make FND and > Eric happy. > > Especially if it encourages them to be more flexible about tickets :) > > -- > Chris Dent http://burningchrome.com/ > [...] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
