If a transition from SVN to Git were to be done, the question most relevant question for me is whether it will be possible to properly transform the EN-Revision fields in the documentation translation files. I.e. will we be able to keep the current SVN history (just make it a Git history) and also automatedly rewrite those EN-Revision fields to use the appropriate sha1 hashes? I'm all in favor of using Git, but missing EN-Revisions are really a pain and drastically increase the time required for updating translations. I would better keep SVN, if a transformation wouldn't be possible.
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:50 PM, David Soria Parra <d...@php.net> wrote: > Hi Internals, > > Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) getting more and more > popular. In fact they have been discussed within the PHP community and > on Internals a few times. It came to my attention that more and more > people like to see PHP move to a DVCS to solve some of the current > issues (and get other ones). > > I was asked to put together a RFC, and so here we are. I've created > an initial draft. It is mostly based on the very good Python PEP-0374. > It compares Git and Mercurial. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/dvcs > > There are reasons for choosing these systems: > * Both are quite popular > * I know them > * Most PHP devs that I know, know at least on of them > * Big projects have recently moved to them, they have > similar requirements like PHP > > The RFC is far from done, so please help me finishing it and get it out. > > This is a call for participation to help to get a (probably heated) > discussed started and work on the RFC to make it good enough to finally > choose a system or, and that is a valid option, stay with SVN. > > So if: > - you are interested in DVCS > - know a little bit about PHPs requirements for a DVCS > - are not a fanboy > > Feel free to discuss this and add your thoughts to the RFC. I would > love to not do this on my own. Feel free to catch me on IRC (dsp_ on > php.pecl) and discuss it. > > NOTE: this is not the place for any religiouise discussion about git vs > mercurial whatsover. if you have nothing else to add than "hg is $*** > anyway" or think hosting platform XY will solve all our problems > without reading the RFC carefully, please post to alt.relgion.* and not > here. > > > - David > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
