Hello,
I changed the subject line for this thread, since I didn't want to
hijack another thread. Anyway, I am not proposing that we actually
decide whether to move to git and github now, but I am just curious
how people would feel. We had a conversation about this a few years
ago and it was quite contentious at the time. Since then, I believe a
number of us have started using git and github for most of our work.
And there are a number of developers using git-svn to develop numpy
now. So I was curious to get a feeling for what people would think
about it, if we moved to git. (I don't want to rehash the arguments
for the move.)
Anyway, Chuck listed the main concerns we had previously when we
discussed moving from svn to git. See the discussion below. Are
there any other concerns? Am I right in thinking that most of the
developers would prefer git at this point? Or are there still a
number of developers who would prefer using svn still?
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Charles R Harris
I think the main problem has been windows compatibility. Git is best from the command line whereas the windows command line is an afterthought. Another box that needs a check-mark is the buildbot. If svn clients are supported then it may be that neither of those are going to be a problem.
I was under the impression that there were a number of decent git clients for Windows now, but I don't know anyone who develops on Windows. Are there any NumPy developers who use Windows who could check out the current situation? Pulling from github with an svn client works very well, so buildbot could continue working as is: http://github.com/blog/626-announcing-svn-support And if it turns out the Windows clients are still not good enough, we could look into the recently add svn write support to github: http://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support No need for us to make any changes immediately. I am just curious how people would feel about it at this point. Jarrod