[Numpy-discussion] curious about how people would feel about moving to github

[Anne Archibald]

Hi Jarrod,

I'm in favour of the switch, though I don't use Windows. I find git
far more convenient to use than SVN; I've been using git-svn, and in
spite of the headaches it's caused me I still prefer it to raw SVN.

It seems to me that git's flexibility in how people collaborate means
we can do a certain amount of figuring out after the switch. My
experience with a small project has been that anyone who wants to make
major changes just clones the repository on github and makes the
changes; then we email the main author to ask him to pull particular
branches into the main repo. It works well enough.

Anne

On 26 May 2010 19:47, Jarrod Millman <millman at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
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