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

[Yahor Radtsevich]

My main contras for Git:

   1. It is poorly integrated with Windows and Eclipse.
   2. Git repo will be too big. Thus this is a question for me will be
   commits faster or not. It will big because:
      1. JBoss Tools SVN consists of pretty coupled projects, so we have(?)
      to create a single Git repo for all of them.
      2. 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).

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.

--
Yahor Radtsevich

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Brian Fitzpatrick <bfitzpat at redhat.com>wrote:

> Hey Max...
>
> I think there will definitely be some challenges as far as migrating SVN to
> Git, but the long term benefits might outweigh any short-term pain. As we
> chatted about on IRC, the issues will include things like... Do we end up
> with one large Git repo to mimic what we have with SVN? (Not ideal) Or do we
> split up all the modules into their own Git repos, which explodes our code
> into a million projects, some of which won't be touched often if at all?
>
> That said, I think it will be an interesting experiment to see how
> complicated maintenance gets with the git mirror.
>
> I certainly want to see if it's better or worse before we make the
> commitment. :)
>
> --Fitz
> _______________________________
> Brian Fitzpatrick (aka "Fitz")
> Senior Software Engineer, SOA-P
> JBoss by Red Hat
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen at redhat.com>
> To: "jbosstools-dev" <jbosstools-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 8:32:34 AM
> Subject: [jbosstools-dev] Git - worth it or not ?
>
> Hi,
>
> I must say i'm pretty impressed with Git and how easy or rather *fast* to
> use compared to svn.
>
> I'm still not convinced on how/if we should move jboss tools repo to a git
> repo or rather a set of git repo's
> to make things more modular and easier (in some respects) to maintain
> compared to a full svn tree.
>
> Thus i'm currently trying to setup a git mirror of our svn repo - to at
> least use as a testbed for git.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> p.s. this is no way a commitment that we'll move to git - just a start now
> that GA is about to go out the door
> to see if there are things we can do better to make life easier for us ;)
>
> /max
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