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

[Shea Levy]

On 08/24/2011 05:02 PM, Shea Levy wrote:
> 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
>
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Whoops, forgot to include a link to the thread: 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/4608