[Kde-scm-interest] svn, git, bzr

[Stephen Kelly]

Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Stephen Kelly wrote:
>>Patrick Aljord wrote:
>>> And, as Thiago said, you can write plumbing/porcelain/aliases in any
>>> languages. Plus, Git is still way faster than bzr (even though it has
>>> improved a lot) which is important for huge projects like kdelibs and
>>> kdebase, not having to wait when you want to commit or do a diff on
>>> millions of lines of code.
>>
>>This is something I'd like to try out, although anything I commit is not
>>likely to be large enough to stress any system :). Can we get back to
>>seeing about a bzr-playground.kde.org, as Paul has offered to help with?
>>What is needed on the kde side? Do we need someone from sysadmin to make
>>that happen? Or is it seen as a pointless exercise as many kde
>> developers already use git?
> 
> The same thing that is required for any other SCM: for someone to actually
> do the conversion.
> 
> An off-line copy of the SVN server can be downloaded from
> rsync://rsync.kde.org. That's what I used to import to Git.
> 

OK. I don't have the hardware to do that myself, so I'm happy enough to drop
it. 

Looks like most KDE devs are using git by now anyway.

All the best,

Steve.