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

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2008, um 02:36 Uhr, schrieb 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

Thanks.
(Why didn't this showup on the search for git?
http://techbase.kde.org/Special:Search?search=git&fulltext=Search)

Would it be okay if I setup a product-neutral page about switching to a DVCS 
(this mailing list is also named kde-scm-interest, not 
kde-$product-interest)? I would try to start to collect there all information 
passing this mailing list.

> > 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,

But which ones are valuable? :)
And then I am not so much interested _how_ to do a move to $DVCS , but 
_why_ ;)

> > 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.

Can, but is it enforced? 

Cheers
Friedrich
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