Re: [Census] So who uses git?

From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2006, 02:14 UTC
Message-ID: <118833cc0601281814i503bf934ge32b12e7b090c44@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmlgt5zt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> Can I hear experiences from other big projects that tried to use
> git [*1*]?  I suspect there are many that have tried, and I
> would not be surprised at all if git did not work out well for
> them.

I've been playing with Gnumeric under git.

-rw-rw-r-- 1 welinder research 270M Nov 5 09:46 gnumeric/.git/objects/pack/pack-91291de5477ddd06545b052460239b3dae89ad72.pack

270M is about 40% of the cvs repository size. Given compression I would have expected bigger savings.

Conversion isn't perfect, probably because the cvs tree has seen some hacking over the years. (I am not posting the URL because I don't want to kill gnome.org.)

We haven't switched yet, but I expect that we will. We are looking for (in no particular order):

1. Offline history.
2. Patch sets and other things that'll make it easier to maintain
    more than one branch.

In other words, pretty-much anything but cvs will fit the bill, :-./

M.