El jue, 08-03-2012 a las 14:10 -0300, Alexis Menard escribió: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Ashod Nakashian <ashodnakash...@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> In the light of discovering that some SVN scripts have fallen behind in > >> terms of maintenance[1] and WebKit's strong Git support and infrastructure, > >> against my better judgement, I'd like to distract you from being productive > >> by bringing up this topic (again). > >> > >> The wiki page of the same name[2] was created 3 years ago and hardly > >> updated since[3]. I know we're all busy with more important things, but > >> IMHO > >> I think we can at least update the wiki and perhaps vote on when/how we > >> should do the eventual transition. > >> > >> I understand that while this type of work isn't necessarily very > >> productive, maintaining two repositories and sets of scripts (with their > >> docs and issues) has a very real cost as well. I'm proposing we reevaluate > >> the situation and act accordingly. > > > > > > Re-evaluating the situation is good, but I'm still opposed. > > I don't use svn but the only benefit I see of WebKit using svn is the > linear history, clean, easy to read and to explore. Git repos tend to > have merging commits a lot and it leads to make bisecting/history > browsing harder (my taste).
I agree about merging commits, but I think it's possible to enforce all merges to be fast-forward and without merging commits. In general browsing git history is easier and cleaner than svn, and more important it's much faster (my taste :-P) > Then for everything else I use git and its power locally. I would be more than happy with the switch :-) -- Carlos Garcia Campos http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3 _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev