[DRE-maint] Experiments with git

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 17/01/11 at 10:09 -0700, Joshua Timberman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Lucas Nussbaum
> <lucas at lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> > svn-buildpackage wouldn't work with git.
> >
> > That's a -1000 considering that our current workflow deeply relies on
> > svn-bp.
> 
> Would it really be a big deal to change the workflow to use git-buildpackage?

On 17/01/11 at 19:41 +0200, Antono Vasiljev wrote:
> Ok. Let's think positive. What required in order to replace
> svn-buildpackage with $OUR_SCRIPT_NAME.
> 
> Maybe git-buildpackage may be used?

I think so, yes. All the docs refer to it, the new processes need to be
defined, etc, etc. For what benefit? OK, git is faster, and I prefer git
for new projects too. But I'm not willing to spend a few days working on
that transition if there are no clear benefits.

However, it is something that can be done at the same time as switching
to gem2deb. So help make this happen, and we can do the switch to git at
the same time, since gem2deb will force us to redefine all our processes
anyway (with clear benefits).

- Lucas