X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/b906e01f498fb7b42b11d60813640616f92445e3..e6a2f3ba6c205de7af4d53f64d353ee5c6795445:/doc/news/moved_to_git/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/news/moved_to_git/discussion.mdwn b/doc/news/moved_to_git/discussion.mdwn index e59faa2eb..f7e5dcb2c 100644 --- a/doc/news/moved_to_git/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/news/moved_to_git/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,9 +5,29 @@ ikiwiki to Git. Are there only easier way to maintain and submit patches for ikiwiki? It's very interesting for me, because I know you are long-time Subversion user and very experienced with it. -I know that Git is very "modern" SCM these days, but I don't understand the hype +I know that Git is very "trendy" SCM these days, but I don't understand the hype about it. This's not only one distributed SCM on the free/open source world. Maybe that model of work is better for you, but then you can use also Darcs, Mercurial, Bazaar or SVK :) --[[Paweł|ptecza]] + +> You forgot monotoone. :-) +> +> Of those, only mercurial monotone and git have support in ikiwiki, and the +> git support seems most mature and is definitely used by the most sites. +> +> I don't consider which rcs is used a permanant or particularly significant +> decision. I switched to svn with the express idea that sometime (I figured +> within 10 years, it turned out to be 3), there would be something better, +> with excellent conversion tools from svn. +> +> At the moment, I'm happy with git, and it's definitely useful to not have +> to worry about who derserves commit access to ikiwiki, or about next summer's +> [[soc]] students (if we participate again) having to go through the ad-hoc +> mess this year's did to contribute. +> +> Being able to git-am < doc/todo/patch.mdwn is also potentially pretty neat. ;-) +> +> --[[Joey]] +