Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Github

On Feb 25, 2009, at 1:38 AM, shire wrote:

> - It's got a significantly higher learning curve than something like  
> SVN
> - It's easier to change history, or to fowl things up with some of  
> the more advanced commands.
> - I consider it to be a "power" users type tool, you can do a lot of  
> more advanced things but these come with a complexity cost.  Unlike  
> SVN which is pretty simple.
> - I think tools still need some work, specifically web interfaces.
> - It's pretty easy to import code from SVN and back using git, do we  
> want to move to SVN first (considering we're ready/planning to do  
> so) which will allow more developers to use GIT more?


Watch out!  Linus is gonna get ya: http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/ 
Git :-)

 From my personal experience, the only thing that has historically  
made Git harder to use is its lack of GUI tools.  I imagine if we took  
a poll of contributors on internals@ very few (if any) use a GUI tool  
(outside of possibly an IDE) to commit to PHP.  You are correct that  
Git exposes a lot of advanced functionality that can really bite you  
if you're not careful/don't know what you're doing.  That said, you  
have to be determined to mess up more than your own repository.

There's only a handful of commands you really need to know in order to  
use Git successfully as a contributor to a project.  If we move php- 
src to Git (via GitHub or something else), I'll put my name in the hat  
to create a Contributing to PHP doc explaining those commands and  
getting people up to speed.

-T