Not long ago, Patrick R. Michaud proclaimed... > Well, we're now at the point where it's time to move the > Rakudo repository, and thus we need a decision on continuing > to use svn for the repository or switching to git. > > Obviously staying with svn is very easy to handle. The other > repositories that we have to coordinate with (parrot and pugs) > are likely to remain in svn for the time being, so we know > that things will work out well there. > > Switching the rakudo repository to git means that it would > likely live on github, at least for a short time. We'd also > have to provide mechanisms for people to continue to obtain > and be able to easily commit to the pugs subversion repository.
The existing mechanism (makefile calls svn to check out t/spec) will work fine unmodified with rakudo in git. > I will be making a decision (and possibly starting the > migration) tomorrow. If anyone has any strong opinions > one way or another, please let them be known quickly. > I'd also prefer that we not get into long discussions at this > time -- there's been plenty of opportunity for that. Just state > your preference and possibly a short statement of why you > prefer that choice. I prefer to work with git. I feel a lot more confident that I won't screw things up with git. I'm more comfortable working with server-side branches with git. Feel free to weight my preference against my recent inactivity, though.
