From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Switching to Git? Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:45:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87odh1ribo.fsf@chbouib.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187646384 4991 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 21:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:46:24 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 23:46:21 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INF4n-0008Nh-4Y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:46:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INF4n-00034z-Pi for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INF4k-00034h-9S for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:46:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INF4i-000347-Ko for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INF4i-000344-Fa for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INF4g-0002Mc-RJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:46:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1INF4c-0004TP-VK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:46:10 +0200 Original-Received: from adh419.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.9]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:46:10 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by adh419.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:46:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 64 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adh419.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: i486-pc-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YR+C7qVZeW3VAE1kkB1T3PvEo0A= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6711 Archived-At: Hi, How about switching from CVS to Git [0]? What this would bring us: * Decentralized Development As you may know, this would allow every interested user to hack on their side, pulling changes from the main repository as they see fit, and promoting their changes whenever they want. This is really appreciable. * Off-Line Operation As a corollary, this would allow off-line operation on the local copy of the repository. * Speed and Bandwidth Improvement Git operates on a local repository, which makes operations very fast. This is a significant change when one has got used to waiting for "cvs diff" to complete for ages. ;-) * Transactional, Changeset-Oriented Commit operations are transactional and changeset-oriented. Changes to a collection of files that are committed at the same time do appear as a single "change set", rather than as separate changes as with CVS. This means that GNU-style change logs can be generated automatically using tools like `git2cl' [4]. * Nice Web Interface See [1] for example. These are the most obvious benefits. Note that Git is now supported on Savannah [2]. It's used by various GNU projects, and also non-GNU projects (one of which is quite famous ;-)). Han-Wen did a full import of the CVS history into Git some time ago [1]. Note that it preserves tags and branches. This Git repository is kept in sync with CVS using a cron job that runs on Han-Wen's machine. However, it is not automatically synchronized in the other direction, making it inconvenient. Of course, nothing's black and white and Git has some weaknesses, too. Most notably, its UI is a bit rough and at least not to everyone's taste (which can be worked around by using companion tools such as Cogito [3]). Opinions? Thanks, Ludovic. [0] http://git.or.cz/ [1] http://repo.or.cz/w/guile.git [2] http://git.sv.gnu.org/ [3] http://git.or.cz/cogito/ [4] http://repo.or.cz/w/git2cl.git/ _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel