[DRE-maint] Experiments with git

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 18/01/11 at 22:05 +0200, Antono Vasiljev wrote:
> Excerpts from Lucas Nussbaum's message of Mon Jan 17 21:41:15 +0200 2011:
> 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > It's easier to contribute and live in modern ruby world with git.
> > > Almost all big ruby project use git. Why should we use svn? :)
> > 
> > ... except the ruby interpreter. ;)
> 
> http://github.com/ruby/ruby :)
> I think its easier to track svn repos via git than pull git
> repos to svn.

Come on. I know you know it's just a mirror, and that the development
still happens on SVN.

> > Don't get me wrong. I like git a lot, and use it preferably to SVN.
> > However, I don't think that SVN has any real problem *for our use*.
> 
> It slow. Takes a lot of time to update. No local branches, no
> local history. Its bad :)

Bad, but we can live with that.

> [...]
> I made small braindump. Consider it as initial point for discussion :)
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Ruby/RubyExtras/UsingGit

Interesting. Could you document how the basic tasks (adding a package,
etc) would look like using git submodules?

- Lucas