Re: [jgroups-dev] Moving JGroups from CVS to Git ?

Brian Stansberry <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:40:17 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.javagroups.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
+1 from me on this, assuming you can preserve the commit history (which 
from some comments in the thread it sounds like you can.)

I've become a git fanboy. And I'm rapidly forgetting CVS details, so not 
having to occasionally refresh my memory for JGroups would be just fine. :-)

On 11/8/10 3:47 AM, Bela Ban wrote:
> I've been thinking about whether we should move JGroups from CVS to Git.
> A lot of open source projects are on Git, so there's plenty of Git
> knowledge around, whereas folks might not know CVS anymore.
>
> I'm currently reading Scott Chacon's Pro Git book, to familiarize myself
> better with Git, and I've also set up a JGroups GIT repo on GitHub [1]
> to experiment with Git.
>
> If we do this, then a good time would be for 3.0. However, as the
> migration from CVS seems trivial, maybe we could even do it for 2.12.
> I'll be able to make a more informed decision once I'm done with the book.
>
> Opinions ?
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/belaban/JGroups
>


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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat

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