Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Github

Bump...?

There was a flurry of activity for a few days, then it quieted down.   
Has anyone given it any additional thoughts?

-T


On Feb 24, 2009, at 4:56 PM, 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
>
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