On 10/10/2015 07:45 PM, nemesis wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:41:24 +0300, Roman Yeryomin > <leroi.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 9 October 2015 at 21:22, Jo-Philipp Wich <j...@openwrt.org> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>>> Moving to Git seemed to have lots of traction at the summit, and I'll >>>> add my voice that this sounds like a step in the right direction for >>>> OpenWrt. I'm assuming that we would want to do a proper SVN to Git >>>> conversion, and Eric's help on this would be great, I think. My >>>> discussion with Eric is over on Google+ and marked public: >>>> https://plus.google.com/+JonathanBennett87/posts/bMPMjn7ZcJS >>> >>> Why does the core system need to migrate from svn to git? >>> >> >> I thought everybody is using git anyway already. Are there people >> still using svn? > > doing something because everybody is doing so is not the best argument > IMHO. > > I would say that using git would improve quite a few things: > > * it would be easier to send upstream patches > * having a good git web interface like gitlab or github would allow > newcomers to participate more easily > * it would make life easier to the core contributors that prefer to > work with git because git allows a very powerful development workflow > compared to SVN
I remember somebody also mentioned sending patches to the linux kernel would be easier. What do you people think about this point? Federico
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