I'm =0 on convenience, but like you said, that's because most people have drifted into public/private git repos for development of branches (though that's partly to avoid the ongoing review-before-each commit overhead)
-moving to Git could encourage more in-ASF branch dev by committers -if we adopt gerrit then code review would be significantly easier -it'd reduce the latency from an svn commit to a git pull on the git.apache.org repo -we could take (compressed) "git am" patches with provenance. Other ASF projects (Twill) do this. -could maybe field git pull requests from outside I didn't think cherry picking did lineage so well, and svn merge does that too. It's just a bit more fiddly. Given the overhead of actually applying patches to 2+ branches, I'm grateful for anything that improves this. But...for a move to git, I'd like to see what the big gains are, which seems to me to be in Gerrit. On 2 August 2014 00:43, Karthik Kambatla <ka...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > From what I hear, a lot of devs use the git mirror for development/reviews > and use subversion primarily for checking code in. I was wondering if it > would make more sense just to move to git. In addition to subjective liking > of git, I see the following advantages in our workflow: > > 1. Feature branches - it becomes easier to work on them and keep > rebasing against the latest trunk. > 2. Cherry-picks between branches automatically ensures the exact same > commit message and tracks the lineage as well. > 3. When cutting new branches and/or updating maven versions etc., it > allows doing all the work locally before pushing it to the main branch. > 4. Opens us up to potentially using other code-review tools. (Gerrit?) > 5. It is just more convenient. > > I am sure this was brought up before in different capacities. I believe the > support for git in ASF is healthy now and several downstream projects have > moved. Again, from what I hear, ASF INFRA folks make the migration process > fairly easy. > > What do you all think? > > Thanks > Karthik > -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
