Re: [boost] [Git] Moving beyond arm waving?

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Moving beyond arm waving?
From: Belcourt, K. Noel (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-04 00:24:09

On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Emil Dotchevski wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Belcourt, K. Noel  
> <kbelco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Vladimir Prus  wrote:
>>
>>>> - Beman suggests to play with git, using one library. That seems  
>>>> OK.
>>
>> I'd like to propose that we follow the Clang approach.  Instead of  
>> playing with one Boost library converted to git, let's convert the  
>> entire SVN repo in it's current structure to git, and publicly  
>> maintain it by adding an SVN post-commit hook to run 'git svn  
>> fetch' following each SVN commit to bring the git repo up to date  
>> (or update the git mirror every few hours via cron).
>>
>> I'm happy to offer resources to establish and maintain a git mirror  
>> if that would help.
>
> This may be a dumb question, but if a group of developers wants to
> collaborate using git, do they really care if in the end they push to
> a git or a svn repository?

Probably not.  I made the proposal in the spirit of experimenting and  
public access to a live git mirror, which might help people better  
understand the pros and cons of a migration to git.

-- Noel