[jbosstools-dev] Git - worth it or not ?

[Dmitry Geraskov]

14/02/2011 23:13, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> My main contras for Git:
>> 	• It is poorly integrated with Windows and Eclipse.
> For Windows - is that really still the case ?
> Last I tried it seemed to work fine ?
> I used this http://help.github.com/win-git-installation/
>
> You had any specific bad experiences ?
>
> About Eclipse, egit seem to be doing well ?
> note, since git is darn fast I rarely eclipse tooling worth bothering with it...but again
> I'll need to try on some more real examples to tell (hence my attempt on getting a real git repo to work with)

Egit doesn't support some specific functions.  I looked through 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide and what I've found:

    * Ad-hoc selection of the upstream branch to pull from
    * Deletion of tags is currently not supported in EGit
    * Signed tags
    * EGit 0.9 does not yet support authentication via HTTP or HTTPS
      protocol.

I don't think they are significan't.

>> 	• Git repo will be too big. Thus this is a question for me will be commits faster or not. It will big because:
>> 		• JBoss Tools SVN consists of pretty coupled projects, so we have(?) to create a single Git repo for all of them.
> well, its always been the intent these should get decoupled more and more with proper API's...one of the reasons that haven't happen
> could be "blamed" on the fact the source is kept so close so its easy to "cheat" instead of defining proper API's.
>
>> 		• There are a lot of binaries (jars, images, videos, giant zip-files, ...). If we want to have all SVN history in Git, we have to add all these binaries to the mirror. I expect it will take approx 5GB (SVN repo itself takes 7GB now).
> hmm - what repo are you using ? My repo with most projects built is a total of 3.7GB ...thus its (hopefully) much less since most are not versioned data.
>
> We haven't had videos in the main repo for years and they were seldom changed thus shouldn't be too much - but we'll see.
>
> btw. jars is often something that can be fixed - again, being sloppy about adding many big jars for testing a basic feature often is not needed.
>
>> Anyway, Max, if you succeed with creation of the mirror, please share it. I would like to play with it too :) I tried to create a Git mirror some time ago, but after a lot of attempts I decided that it is not possible on Windows without direct access to the SVN repo.
> yup - i've created a local svn mirror and it is currenty running svn2git to get a full repo to see how bad/big the damage is.
>
> The final version i'll probably just include all the later branches/tags instead of the full story.
>
> /max
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