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

[Yahor Radtsevich]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <
max.andersen at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> > My main contras for Git:
> >       • It is poorly integrated with Windows and Eclipse.
>
> For Windows - is that really still the case ?
>
It is built on Perl and does not work without MinGW. It is just a matter of
taste, but for me it feels like a Linux emulator.

> Last I tried it seemed to work fine ?
> I used this http://help.github.com/win-git-installation/
>
> You had any specific bad experiences ?
>
As I remember, when I tried it (~1 year ago), it had a very unstable support
of git svn. As I said, after a lot of attempts I was unable to create a Git
mirror.

>
> 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)
>
> >       • 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.
>
I have a local SVN mirror. Its size is 7GB.

>
> 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.
>
I mean we cannot remove jars from the history. There are only two ways: or
create a new Git repo from scratch, or accept that it will be huge.

>
> > 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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