At Tue, 22 May 2007 20:52:58 +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:38:47PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to ask if GRUB is planning to move to another SCM? > > > > I've been using GIT for a while and it looks great for the kinda of > > work done at GRUB since there're a lot of people working together and > > sometimes a feature need some time to get mature enough to be merged > > in and this fits very well how GIT is used. > > > > There's any plans for it? What's the options that current developers > > have in mind? > > I'm not very familiar with GIT, although my understanding is that it has > advantages related to branching and also a nice regression test feature. > > Also, for distributors for Debian, it seems to be useful since the Debian > package can be considered a branch from official GRUB in the SCM itself. > > Anyway, I find CVS very awkward to work with. I tend to agree with Otavio > that a change would be a good thing (be it to git, svn...).
You get used to it over the years. :-) But we should switch to something else yes. The savannah admins are working on supporting svn and git: https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/WhenSvN and https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git It will depend on when savannah starts offering it when we can switch. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
