[Scummvm-devel] Switching from SVN to git, mercurial or bazaar

Filippos Karapetis philipk79 at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 27 15:00:36 CET 2009


Hi Max

Sorry, I didn't have enough time to test it out properly on Windows :( Will give a detailed report by the end of the week

Regards
Filippos

> CC: scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> From: max at quendi.de
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:46:25 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Scummvm-devel] Switching from SVN to git, mercurial or bazaar
> 
> Hi Pawel,
> 
> Thanks for the detailed report on your Windows experience with git and  
> mercurial :).
> 
> Filippos, did you manage to do some experiments on Windows?
> 
>  From what I know so far, it seems to me that the major obstacles for  
> using Git have been removed. Willem, Pawel and me prefer Git, I am not  
> sure what others think. Maybe some people would prefer to stay with  
> SVN, although I'd hope that many of the reasons formerly named for  
> that have been addressed by now. If not, please recap them briefly.
> 
> Pending further comments, it appears we could consider a move to git  
> in the not so distant future. We'd have to come up with a suitable  
> migration plan. This would probably include first converting a few  
> less import SVN subrepositories, to let get experience with the  
> conversion process, and also with using the resulting repositories.  
> Only if this works out well, convert the primary ones ("scummvm",  
> "tools", "web"), too.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Max
> 
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