[DRE-maint] Experiments with git

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 17/01/11 at 13:53 +0200, Antono Vasiljev wrote:
> 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.

svn-buildpackage wouldn't work with git.

That's a -1000 considering that our current workflow deeply relies on
svn-bp.

- Lucas