[Scilab-Dev] Leaving SVN to GIT

[Jonathan Blanchard]

I am not working with the Scilab repository so I have no real opinion
on the subject apart that the new version of svn have some very nice
new feature. But just on question, what do you mean by branching in
svn is a pain? If i remember correctly svn was created to replace cvs
and branching was one of the compelling reason to do so. Anyways I'm
just curious.

Jonathan Blanchard



On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM, François Vogel <fvogelnew1 at free.fr> wrote:
> Sylvestre Ledru said on 17/09/2008 18:40:
>>
>> SVN is a pain when dealing with branches. Git is probably the best way
>> to organize our daily work.
>
> Interesting. In fact I think at the first place you're advocating switching
> from SVN to a distributed version control system. I can't tell if this is a
> good idea or not, you certainly have a better view of what you want to do
> next than I have, thus a better assessment of whether a distributed VCS
> should be used.
>
> The question I have is rather why GIT, because there are other distributed
> version control systems around, for instance SVK, which looks closer to SVN
> (easing switching perhaps, then).
>
> Francois
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