Switch Repository to Git

Hey folks,

I have been looking at and working with Git for the last four or five weeks 
and I must say that I’m very impressed by it. It’s easy to use, it’s 
extremely powerful, it enables developers to perform the most tedious tasks 
in a very short time and in general simply wipes the floor with 
subversion. :)

It is possible to import subversion repositories into Git, keeping the 
complete history and even branches, and it’s even possible to commit changes 
made in a local repository back to subversion; I just tested that tonight 
when I fixed nextgens’ backport of toad’s BucketChainBucket—it even made 
finding the bug simple.

Git repositories can be served by a special git-daemon or by a normal, 
run-off-the-mill HTTP server without any special modules. No DAV, no CGI, no 
nothing, just plain HTTP.

I’d suggest that we move to Git rather sooner than later; most of the trouble 
we had with bug #2440 (which resulted from the faulty backport) would never 
have occured in the first place with Git. (Sure, of course you can make 
changes in the wrong branch but Git will happily apply a commit from one 
branch to another so the backport could have been done in two minutes.)

Anybody in favor? Anybody opposed?


	David

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