On 1/31/11 3:37 PM, Leo Butler wrote:
> Ray, I think there is another factor to consider: what appeals to
> younger, talented hackers. On my reading, git is far more appealing
> to this group (anecdotal evidence: this past week our phd students
> had a self-organised seminar on using git to manage their dissertation
> writing--I can't imagine them talking about subversion or mercurial,
> though, despite our university officially supporting subversion
> 'private' repositories).
> The Maxima project needs to attract such hackers for its long run health.
Sorry, but in my crotchety old age cynicism, I can't imagine young
hackers saying, "Oh dang. It's not using git. I don't want to hack on
it." And my cynicism also says we don't need hackers who say "Oh
look! It's uses git. I can hack on it!!!!"
:-)
I'm not arguing that we use hg and not git. If it's not cvs, I have a
bit of learning to do, not least of which is getting a replacement for
my trusty old friend in pcl-cvs in emacs.
> Btw, what sort of support will SF provide for moving repos from one rcs
> to another?
I doubt there will be any support other than you can enable svn, hg, or git.
FWIW, though, I did convert series yesterday from cvs to git. Went ok,
but I think I messed up a few things which I'll have to fix up when
shell access is enabled again. Not really important, but I kind of
wanted all of the cvs history, including labels and branches.
Ray