KDE development with git

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Wed Jul 11 20:56:54 BST 2007


Benjamin Meyer wrote:
>> i really don't see why we can't just be a bit patient, make it easy as
>> possible for people to keep developing with kde and move to git (or
>> whatever)
>> in the future all at once ...
>
>I 100% agree with you.  Converting KDE to git today would be near
>suicide.  Sorry I wasn't clear enough.  What I am advocating is that
>we setup the git web so that new apps or maintainer of apps can give
>it a shot and even migrate if they found it positive.  The app/lib
>maintainers can slowly try git out and even possibly migrate things
>out of KDE if it makes sense for them.  As they do that we can figure
>out how to get stuff like translations etc to work.  If the Amarok
>dudes decided to unlease the power of git on their project I say
>power to them.   They have a strong team and could probably really
>utilize it.  Having a KDE gitweb provides a common place for us to
>place our git depots and is just step 1 in 100.

Unfortunately, we can provide a gitweb no better than repo.or.cz can. So 
just go ahead and use that one.

Just remember: for translations to work, you must import your code into 
Subversion every now and then. And you must import scripty changes into 
your code every now and then.

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