On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > > There's probably proportionately more people using Git. Making these web > surveys is a pain, so I'd rather not do it again if we don't need to. > > What would be the pros and cons of the master repository being git instead of > svn, for git users?
The conversion is clearly not loss-less. :) So it's like asking what would be the pros of backing an SVN checkout with an SVN repository instead of a Git one (or a CVS one for that matter). I'm sure someone who cares more deeply about version control than I do could give you a list. :) But that's not really an argument I'm interested in pushing. I believe eventually the remaining SVN users will switch to distributed version control of their own will, and we'll eventually decide to stop supporting SVN because not enough of the project is using it to justify causing the majority of users to use a translated solution. But we have larger problems to solve in WebKit besides what version control system we're using. :) I'm sorry for re-starting this thread and distracting from more important discussions. It just crossed my mind for whatever reason again this evening. > (For current svn users I assume using svn would become effectively > impossible; the only tool I could find to do this is server-side and > essentially maintains git and svn repositories in parallel.) > > - Maciej > > On Feb 17, 2013, at 9:00 PM, Eric Seidel <e...@webkit.org> wrote: > >> I wonder if the git-taking-over-the-project trend has continued a year later. >> >> I'm also glad to see efforts like >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110073 towards standardizing >> on a simpler git workflow. :) >> >> Thanks again for running the survey. >> >> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 22, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: >>>>> I made a bad choice of survey site. They want to charge me to see more >>>>> than >>>>> 100 responses or to export the data, but they won't take my money. >>>>> Sadness. >>>>> Please try this survey instead, it will run through the 17th. >>>> >>>> The survey seems to be over. Any word on the results? >>> >>> Here's the results: >>> >>> == All persons responding == >>> >>> Total responses: 167 >>> Use SVN only: 24 (14%) >>> Use SVN+ Git: 26 (16%) >>> Use Git Only: 115 (69%) >>> Other: 2 (1%) >>> >>> == Only committers + reviewers == >>> >>> Total responses: 105 >>> Use SVN only: 18 (17%) >>> Use SVN+ Git: 21 (20%) >>> Use Git Only: 65 (62%) >>> Other: 1 (1%) >>> >>> == Only reviewers == >>> >>> Total responses: 48 >>> Use SVN only: 12 (25%) >>> Use SVN+ Git: 13 (27%) >>> Use Git Only: 22 (45%) >>> Other: 1 (2%) >>> >>> == Values of "other" responses == >>> >>> 1 "git-svn" >>> 1 "Commit queue + trac" >>> >>> == Conclusions (assuming the sample is representative) == >>> >>> - More of the WebKit community uses Git than SVN to access the WebKit >>> repository >>> - Quite a few people use both >>> - A significant proportion of the community uses SVN, and a significant >>> fraction of those use it exclusively >>> - Reviewers (presumably longer-time, more experienced contributors) are >>> more likely to use SVN than newer contributors >>> - Newer participants are particularly likely to use Git >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> webkit-dev mailing list >>> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
