Re: [Bluez-devel] [PATCH] Ignore built files

Jaap A. Haitsma
2008-01-16T21:29:47Z

On Jan 16, 2008 8:47 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
>
> > > > > I don't see the need and especially since the long-term goal is to move
> > > > > to git, it will become useless.
> > > >
> > > > I thought we wanted to move bluez-gnome to GNOME's SVN...
> > >
> > > personally I think that Subversion is as worse as CVS and I don't see
> > > any advantage for a switch to that. Convincing me that GNOME's
> > > infrastructure makes sense is different, but from a pure technical
> > > standpoint of the SCM, Subversion is not an argument I am gonna buy
> > > into.
> >
> > I'm not getting into SCM discussions, if GNOME was still using CVS, I'd
> > still be using CVS (and so forth). What I meant was using the GNOME
> > infrastructure to get translators, documentation writers, and plenty of
> > pairs of eyeballs for the code.
>
> for me it really boils down to the SCM in the end. I am not a big fan of
> CVS, but switching to SVN is not an option. Best would be if GNOME would
> support GIT, because then we can switch right now.
>
Marcel,

You can use git-svn on SVN repositories to get almost full git
functionality [1]. Quite some GNOME developers already use that for
modules in GNOME SVN.

Jaap

[1] http://live.gnome.org/GitForGnomeDevelopers