Re: Moving to another SCM

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 03:38:47PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to ask if GRUB is planning to move to another SCM?
> 
> I've been using GIT for a while and it looks great for the kinda of
> work done at GRUB since there're a lot of people working together and
> sometimes a feature need some time to get mature enough to be merged
> in and this fits very well how GIT is used.
> 
> There's any plans for it? What's the options that current developers
> have in mind?

I'm not very familiar with GIT, although my understanding is that it has
advantages related to branching and also a nice regression test feature.

Also, for distributors for Debian, it seems to be useful since the Debian
package can be considered a branch from official GRUB in the SCM itself.

Anyway, I find CVS very awkward to work with.  I tend to agree with Otavio
that a change would be a good thing (be it to git, svn...).

Just my 0.02.

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