[Nix-dev] Re: new possible movement to git (?)

[Michael Raskin]

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On 08/04/2010 04:59 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from Yury G. Kudryashov's message of Wed Aug 04 13:23:10 +0200 2010:
>> But I think that we should discuss the choice of dvcs (or setup some 
>> autosynced dvcs mirrors). I know that Michael Raskin is against git.
> We can. But I think the result will be git.
>
> Michael Raskin: If you'd prefer a different one say so - and say why,
> please. In a previous post I concluded that he would accept using git
> as alternative to SVN. See here:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/4425/focus=4440

I said about having a Git mirror being a good start in multi-VCS system.
Storing repository in Git has some drawbacks, as it stores too little
history. As far as I know with our branch/merge cycle for
stdenv-updates, it would be impossible to find out which path was
stdenv-updates and which was trunk except by counting distinct stdenvs
on each path.

>> I'm against using external closed source code hosting.
> It could be used as additional git mirror for that reason if there is
> need to. This could provide some additional transition time for some
> users. Is someone interested in it at all?

Is there anyone using Tailor for Git->SVN? It may turn out to be easier...
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