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

[Patrick Aljord]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
<kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> But now my biggest wish:
> There is no entry on techbase for this project if I searched sufficiently.

There is a page about switching to git using gitorious here:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/GitoriousKDE

Because of RL and work issues, it has been kind of delayed. I'm
working on it though with a couple of friends and we should have a
working demo in hopefully a month or something.

> Or link collections to interesting articles on the topic, like
> experience reports (like: From svn to $DVCS and back ;)

Google have tons of links if you search for "svn to git", anyway,
Thiago and other people already wrote a great script to do the export.

> But how to handle the merge of a branch in another repository with
> perhaps local accounts, not given by the KDE admins? How should copyright
> assignment be handled? BTW, doesn't the same problem already arise with
> subversion today when svnmerge is used, as done e.g. in the merging of the
> PIM enterprise branch, which are commited by one person and have no clear
> authorship (thus copyright ownership) registered with the system, IIUC. Is
> this alright?
>

You can digitally sign commits with Git and most DVCS, that can be useful.