KDE development with git

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Fri Jul 13 11:13:04 BST 2007


On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> If we allow git, how long do you think it'll be until someone asks to host
> their projects in Mercurial?
>
> Can you give me any good reason why we should refuse Mercurial?

Thats a good point, feel free to staff up the "choose a VCS system" working 
group. 

Seriously, I personally like git and use it for most of the stuff that I don't 
do in KDE SVN. During this years aKademy I've also converted kdelibs 
kdepimlibs and kdebase to a git repository and they're really tiny and nice 
(kdelibs is ~ 50MB). 

Unfortunately, there seem to be several obstacles in the conversion, and the 
resulting git history was not complete. I  think with some time for fixing 
that (volunteers wanted) we could offer a bidirectional gateway (I would love 
to see that personally). 


Dirk






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