On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Camillo Bruni <camillo.bruni@inria.fr> wrote:

On 2011-05-02, at 17:59, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> Hi Camillo,
>
> On May 2, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Camillo Bruni <camillo.bruni@inria.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hi eliot,
>>
>> I wanted to know if there is a particular reason that you use svn over git?
> History.
>
>> Since it is quite a hassle each time to merge the svn history to the git repos, which I think is a bit of useless repetitive work which could be avoided.
>> I think it would be nice if you could switch to git as well, actually there is not much difference to svn, and with some nice macros you can make behave almost the same...
>
> It's a hastle for me to change.

sure, but all of us changed as well, which is at least 10 to 1 ;).

> Surely you can set-up some script that pings the Cog branch every ten minutes and does the replication to got automatically.

Please, DON'T do that to the blessed. The most important thing from gitorious is how to sync platforms code and VMMaker. Every commit in the blessed comes with an associated (if required) new version in ConfigurationOfCog, and hence, the update of the file blesses/codegen-scripts/LoadVMMaker.st

That is the ONLY way to have in sync both parts and to be able to "always" build a VM.

So...ok, we can have a cron automatically pick up the branch from SVN and push it in gitorious, but please, not to blessed.

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Well merging does not work fully automated, so there is some human interaction involved.
And SVN is not really about collaboration, which is not so nice.

> �I don't want to change all my process just yet.

so when do you intend to change your process yet?
You should get the basics in 5mins, most of the rest can be solved with compatibility configurations (which I will provide ;) free of charge), and the rest just works more stable than svn.

So would be a cool step towards a more community based VM IMO.

-(~_~)-
camillo