Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Github

I'm all for it, as you know. We'd have to find out how well GitHub performs with a 
repository as large as ours, but if they implement ACLs an pre/post commit hook stuff, I'd 
move as soon as possible. It's just so much better than CVS.

-Andrei

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Had an interesting meeting with the Github folks today.  As you probably
> all know, I have been rather reluctant to switch away from CVS until we
> found something that was clearly better.  Until the very latest release
> of Subversion, I didn't see it with SVN.  And now with the rise of
> Github in the last 3 months and a number of projects making the move I
> think we need to take a look at it.
> 
> My main concerns with Git through Github is the lack of a granular ACL
> system and user definable pre and post commit hooks.  We need both.  The
> Github folks will be releasing web service based pre and post commit
> hooks soon, and through that we could probably get quite close to our
> existing setup.  The work done on the scripts for the Subversion
> migration could be changed slightly to provide the backend services for
> the Github repository.  But, the Github folks are also willing to add an
> ACL mechanism to Github and they would use whatever format we specified
> since they said I was the first person to ask them for such a feature.
> 
> So, I am definitely not sold on this yet, but outsourcing the source
> control work to a very motivated bunch of guys who do nothing but this
> stuff appeals to me.  We would be a rather large feather in their cap,
> so they are willing to jump through whatever hoops we ask them to jump
> through.  For that reason alone we should compile a list of reasons both
> for and against a move to Github.
> 
> I am fairly comfortable with the state of the Git Windows tools.
> TortoiseGit is coming along, and I am told the Git Extensions for the
> shell and VisualStudio work well.  The Git cli has been cleaned up as
> well, so instead of 200 separate git programs, you now have a very
> Mercurial-like cli and writing a git for PHP cvs users page wouldn't be
> so hard today.
> 
> But, I would really like to hear some dissent on this one.  What have I
> missed?
> 
> -Rasmus
>