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

[Shea Levy]

It has been over a year since this discussion and I have not seen any 
move toward implementing the suggestions in the thread. If this is 
simply due to inertia, I would like to offer up help similar to what 
Marc Weber offers in his initial email (migrating scripts, providing 
advice to users, etc.). If it is because the NixOS community is 
undecided as to which vcs to switch to, perhaps we should have a 
discussion about how to fairly discuss and decide such things?
> Finally Eelco Dolstra replied to my question about introducing a
> official git mirror. I replied on irc so maybe his opinion can still
> change. Still I want to tell you about the small conversation:
>
>    12:39<  MarcWeber>  Eelco Dolstra: I'm still missing a reply. You didn't
>    tell us how you think about introducing an official git mirror for nixos
>    which can be used for preparing and sharing patches easier. I'd like to
>    know whether you are willing to provide a small account on one of the
>    nix* servers which runs a cron job once a day fetching from svn and
>    pusnhing to either github or gitorious. The scripts are ready.
>
>    15:53<  Eelco Dolstra>  MarcWeber: I'm currently more inclined to
>    converting to git than to setting up svn<->git mirrors
>
> I would support this change this means:
> - I'll try to help each Nix(OS) user who has trouble with git to get
>    started.
> - I'll help rewriting existing scripts - if there is need to do so.
>
>
> If you want this to happen sooner I urge you to vote for this in this
> thread - I know that a lot of Nix(OS) users already have private git
> clones - including me.
>
> I still see the value of SVN checkouts - less size on disk - so maybe
> maintaining a svn mirror (for stable branch only?) is a good choice?
>
> At this point I want to remind that github has a SVN interface for git
> repositories! Thus you can use git - but SVN users can still use SVN if
> they prefer. I haven't tested it yet - though.
>
> Eelco Dolstra: Thanks for taking the time to reply. Let me know if I can
> support you in any way, please.
>
> Marc Weber