[Kde-games-devel] Move to git now?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday, 2012-02-02, Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2012, 12:14:19 schrieb Ian Wadham:
> > So if we move to git, what will be the benefits for individual
> > programmers and for the KDE Games group in making the change?  Will the
> > gains in productivity (churning out games code) outweigh the effort
> > involved in changing?  How do we know?
> 
> I always used git locally with the git-svn bridge and for me, working with
> git is definitively more productive.
> I have much more fine grained control over exactly what I commit and
> when I do it. For me, it is important to keep relevant commits as
> small as possible so I split off many refactorings or other cosmetic
> changes.
> git stash is very helpful, something svn does not have.
> git bisect for binary search of regressions cannot be done with svn.

Very true, however I think it is important to say that a lot of git's features 
are available when using git-svn, i.e. making it the personal choice of each 
individual developer whether they want to interact with the SVN repository 
through SVN tools or git tools.

> but all that does not matter - after most of KDE has gone git,
> all of it should.

IMHO this reasoning only has weight when the sysadmin team would like to shut 
down SVN related infrastructure in order to reduce their maintenance burden.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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