From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 23:02:18 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F997106566B; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 23:02:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A5714E0D0; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 23:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E8F84F9.2050301@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:02:17 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Romano References: <20111007141312.GJ26743@acme.spoerlein.net> <4E8F54BB.4000206@cpan.org> In-Reply-To: <4E8F54BB.4000206@cpan.org> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doceng@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conversion to SVN X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:02:18 -0000 On 10/07/2011 12:36, David Romano wrote: > I'm a new kid on the block but I'm curious why git is being overlooked > for the new repository. In no particular order: * We now have fairly substantial experience with svn for src/, and while it's not perfect, it has met our needs fairly well. * The FreeBSD development model is really focused on a "central" repository. While you can emulate that in git, you can't recreate it feature-for-feature (or bug-for-bug for that matter). * git lacks features that we like to have, such as sequential versioning and RCS-style $Id tags. * Several git experts are already working on git hubs for src/ so that the people who work well with git will have the ability to do that. I think it's probably safe at this point to assume that the choice to stick with svn is a done deal. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/