From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HsIip-00050s-Il for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:23:47 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HsIio-00050W-In for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:23:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HsIim-00050I-Fl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:23:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HsIim-00050F-BE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:23:44 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HsIil-00060X-SB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 May 2007 09:23:44 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4RDNV7m077681 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 15:23:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87ejlat420.fsf@lab.ossystems.com.br> <20070522185258.GA12275@aragorn> <87bqgctt9n.wl@dekkers.cx> <20070527121300.GQ14602@fencepost.gnu.org> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 15:29:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070527121300.GQ14602@fencepost.gnu.org> (Thomas Schwinge's message of "Sun, 27 May 2007 14:13:00 +0200") Message-ID: <878xbabdju.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: Moving to another SCM X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 13:23:46 -0000 Thomas Schwinge writes: Hi, > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:58:44PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: >> https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Git >> >> It will depend on when savannah starts offering it when we can switch. > > Support for git is already up and running: > . I know from the GNU coreutils and > gnulib people that they've already been using it successfully for a few > months. (``Successfully'' here means that they didn't regret to have > switched to git.) This sounds interesting. Personally I have no objections to a switch. Will the history be preserved, do we still have a commits mailinglist, is git easy to learn and how do other developers (especially Okuji) think about this? -- Marco