From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Gnome chose Git Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:33:45 +0100 Message-ID: <49C249B9.7010001@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <877i2lbvt7.fsf@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Teemu Likonen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 19 14:35:57 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkIPQ-0008Bi-Uh for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:35:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754796AbZCSNeE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:34:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754630AbZCSNeE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:34:04 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:36962 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754370AbZCSNeD (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:34:03 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D651C2F6F6E; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:33:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:33:59 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 52/LT31py+BVtubpvyRKcd7Hacreii/kecUTbfmsE7zx 1237469639 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 30E8C389D2; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:33:59 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090319 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: <877i2lbvt7.fsf@iki.fi> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Teemu Likonen venit, vidit, dixit 19.03.2009 12:23: > FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from > Subversion to Git: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134 Good choice :) Interestingly, they seem to go the svn-all-fast-export route. Also, they need push tracking for pushing through ssh, which is a common requirement for many large projects. Do we have something to support that? git-notes comes to my mind. Their current approach is writing to a single log file (receive-hook). That may support a linear push history best, but looking up who pushed what, given "what"? Michael