Re: Trial SCons migration to git on github

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 14:09 +0100, Dirk Bächle wrote:
> >
> […]
> > I would also like to make us a clear statement first, about what we
> > want to change/migrate and why we want to do it. I'm currently
> > trying to find examples of large open-source projects (not some small
> > repos, maintained by a single person) that have moved from
> > Mercurial to git. Can anyone give pointers?
> > My goal here is to analyze the log/commit history in order to find
> > out whether the migration actually did have a measurable effect
> > on things like "frequency of commits per month", "LOC touched per
> > month", "new committers per month" and so on.
>
> Probably the most high profile Mercurial → Git switch has been the Go
> project.
>
> The core of their rationale was workflow for pull request review and
> acceptance. I suspect also that Google is trying to switch all their
> work to Git.
>

Google policy is use Git Client with Perforce backend on all closed source
artifacts, so I'm not surprised they are trying to keep their other project
workflows similar...



>
> Go switched from a Google hosted Mercurial repository with Rietveld as
> the review system, to a Google hosted Git repository mirrored on GitHub
> with Gerrit as the review system.
>
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