[Nix-dev] Re: Website / SVN back up

[cyril Romain]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> or do you want to use Git for a different purpose, e.g. introducing
>> mirrors?
>>     
>
> I think the idea was to use Git or another DRCS as a replacement for
> Subversion, which also has the nice bonus of automatically creating
> backups of the repo (at least with Git).
>   

Although I'm not a Nix developer and thus not the right person to take 
such decision, switching to Git is IMHO not that bad!
Among the pros of Git, you have the following benefit:
 
1. Each developer has a local mirror of the whole project files and 
history. (indeed: 'git clone' is like 'svn co' except you end up with 
the whole project history)
 
2. it is easier to create branches, and thus test news features without 
messing up with the trunk
Of course branches can be created with subversion, but it is both more 
efficient and less painful with Git to create and merge branches. Ease 
of branching from Git and features such as 'git stash' also enable more 
'orthogonal' commits and is more suited for both development and bug 
correction that can requires:
  - some weeks of development
  - off-line commits
  - developed by one or more developers (you can sync with co-worker)

3. Thanks to git-svn, you can keep a central subversion repository but 
work with git. (that's what KDE developers do, in part because git is 
too complex for non-developer contributors such as language translators).


Hope it helps,

  Cyril