Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Github

I would like to switch over to github as the community features can 
really be a win for us. I also think that the name mapping and acl 
issues can be solved by the github people. Nevertheless going for github 
would certainly require more time than just switching over to svn as it 
more than just a plain repository/vcs change. So if we seriously take 
into account to switch to github, I would prefer this over switching to svn.

As the discussion of dvcs systems and their platforms sometimes lead to 
a very religious fight, I think it would be better to just talk about 
git/github and svn instead of also putting hg/bzr into that discussion.

David

Travis Swicegood schrieb:
> 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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