Just to answer some of your questions: On Jan 3, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I fully agree with Robert: I don't want to move to GIT. In addition, unless > there is some tool that works as good as Windows' TortoiseSVN also for GIT, > so I can merge in milliseconds(TM), I won't commit anything. SmartGit is way better than TortoiseSVN IMO. Your favorite tool is a silly way to decide something like this IMO as well though. > > I just note: I was working as committer for the PHP project (maintaining the > SAPI module for Oracle iPlanet Webserver), but since they moved to GIT 2 > years ago, I never contributed anything anymore. I just don't understand how > it works and its completely unusable to me. E.g. look at this bullshit: > https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow - Sorry this is a no-go. And I have no > idea what all these cryptic commands mean and I don't want to learn that. If > we move to GIT, somebody else have to commit my patches. Others committed your patches in the past and I’m sure they will continue to do so in the future if you desire. > > And the other comment that was given here is not true: Merging with SVN works > perfectly fine and is easy to do, unless you use the command line or > Eclipse's bullshit SVN client (that never works correctly). With a good GUI > (like the fantastic TortoiseSVN), merging is so simple and conflicts can be > processed in milliseconds(TM). And it is much easier to understand. An opinion not commonly shared by my reading. At a minimum, simply opinion though. > > Also Subversion is an Apache Project and I want to add: We should eat our own > dog food. Just to move to something with a crazy license and a broken user > interface, just because it's cool, is a no-go to me. Certainly not because it’s cool! Who argued that? > We would also need to rewrite all our checking tasks (like the > check-svn-working-copy ANT task) to work with GIT. Is there a pure Java > library that works for GIT? I assume: No. You assume wrong. JGit is used by many projects, I’ve used it myself. > So this is another no-go for me. The checks we do cannot be done by command > line. I guess it’s not a no go then, because your assumption was wrong… - Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
