[DRE-maint] Experiments with git

[Antono Vasiljev]

Hello, All.

I cloned svn repo with git-svn and experimented a little bit.

Local repo size:
Git: 34M
SVN: 598M

WTF? 598MB and there is no local history?

Ok. I checked out topmost directory. Lets check trunk/
$ cd trunk
$ du -sh
84M

Much better, but:

 - no history
 - no light branches
 - no my own repos at gitorious.org or github.com

Last time git as our primary VCS was discussed here in 2009:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers/2009-July/003770.html

Maybe I do not understand all tricks done after I uploaded my
package but I think there is no problems with switching to git
(only benefits).

I pushed git repo with all svn history to:
http://gitorious.org/debian-pkg-ruby-extras/pkg-ruby-extras
git clone git://gitorious.org/debian-pkg-ruby-extras/pkg-ruby-extras.git

I made simple dbuild.rb script for automating:
 - download
 - unpack tar
 - debuild

You can find it in git repo.

Almost every big ruby project use git today. Why should we use SVN?

So. I would like to know your cons/pros about switching to git.

Its my '+1' for git for pkg-ruby-extras.

Best wishes.
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