[Twisted-Python] git?

[Jonathan Ballet]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:14:53PM +0800, HawkOwl wrote:
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> Hi Chris,
> 
> I can assure you this topic has come up many times - and unless we
> have volunteers that can manage to get the several thousand tickets
> with comment history into GitHub (which I'm sure that nobody wants to
> get tied to when you have a workflow already), without losing
> anything, then it's most likely Twisted is sticking with svn and trac.

Why does using Git involve moving tickets over to Github?
Why does using Git even involve Github at all, in the first place?

 Jonathan



> Git has svn support - see `git svn`. I have merged several branches
> with it, and it works great. Use that instead, if you get commit access :)
> 
> - -hawkowl
> 
> On 13/03/14 14:53, Chris Withers wrote:
> > On 12/03/2014 23:52, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> >> On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Christopher Armstrong 
> >> <radix at twistedmatrix.com <mailto:radix at twistedmatrix.com>>
> >> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On March 12, 2014 at 5:39:36 PM, Chris Withers
> >>> (chris at simplistix.co.uk <mailto:chris at simplistix.co.uk>)
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Is there a git mirror of the twisted repo anywhere?
> >>>> 
> >>> Yes, it’s at
> >>> 
> >>> http://github.com/twisted/twisted
> >> 
> >> Also at https://code.twistedmatrix.com/git/Twisted.
> >> 
> >> However, if you actually want to /use/ this mirror to work on
> >> Twisted, <https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/GitMirror> has some
> >> useful information.
> > 
> > Not to be too contentious, but when do you reckon you guys will
> > switch the main repo to git?
> > 
> > The difficulty of using svn for the main repo is that it only has
> > a subset of the features of a dvcs such as git.
> > 
> > The difficulty of using git for the main repo is if you have people
> > who still want to interact via svn. Well, it would be if you didn't
> > use github:
> > 
> > https://help.github.com/articles/support-for-subversion-clients
> > 
> > I do wonder how many people know about the above feature, it blows
> > my mind a bit that it's actually there in the first place...
> > 
> > Anyway, just a thought :-)
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> 
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