Re: Gnome chose Git

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Mar 19, 2009, 16:29 UTC
Message-ID: <49C272F8.3070506@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <e2b179460903190433l3619e09aj47490a6e3b10d42d@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Ralphson wrote:

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> 2009/3/19 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>:
>> FYI: The Gnome release team just announced that Gnome will migrate from
>> Subversion to Git:
>>
>>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.infrastructure/1134
> 
> There does seem to be a typo in the release though.
> 
> "We realize that git is not perfect, and that the transition will
> require significant and important changes to many GNOME processes."
> 
> s/ not//
> 
> There, fixed that.
> 
> Seriously, they should be advocating a c) there, contributing
> improvements back to git (and whichever svn migration tool they used)
> for the benefit of all, which I'm sure we'll see.
>

Kristian Högsberg played a rather significant part in the migration process. Since he's an old git contributor, he'll almost certainly see to it that improvements are made available to core git.

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