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Re: RFD Use git for off-site backups

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
May 13, 2007, 23:42 UTC
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Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> wrote:
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>  - Use Subversion. There is summer of code project to create git-svnserver,
>    so you might be able to use git on the server-side in future with
>    subversion client too. But for backups you should not need any of the
>    version control features subversion does not have, so subversion should be
>    suitable.

Unfortunately Google is not sponsering the git-svnserver summer of code project. We didn't get enough slots for us to get Google to pay for that one. At least one of the students has still expressed interest in working on it, but it won't be their full-time job this summer. :-(

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 5 of 5 in “RFD Use git for off-site backups”
  1. Thomas GlanzmannMay 13, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinMay 13, 2007
  3. Thomas GlanzmannMay 13, 2007
  4. Jan HudecMay 13, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceMay 13, 2007

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