[wp-hackers] Switching from SVN

Curtis McHale curtis at curtismchale.ca
Fri Dec 10 00:33:16 UTC 2010


I think Git is a better way but I understand that not everyone will. For 
some the issue is that they already know SVN (I already know Git so I'm 
totally in favour of that).

I think the real question for WP is, would going to another system 
increase the participation long term? I'd anticipate that no matter what 
change happened there would be some drop in participation as people 
would decide it's not worth it. But in a year would we have more people 
committing b/c of a transition to X.

Mike Schinkel wrote:
> Some of the smartest developers I know locally are huge fans of Git, though I have yet to use it.  I have all kind of issues with Subversion though so I can easily assume that given my issues with SVN and so many other smart people advocating for Git that it must be a better way.
>
> That said, I've heard about Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and maybe one other on this thread.  So the question I think might be not "Should we switch from SVN" but instead "Which solution should we TO?"  If others feel it's appropriate for the list I'd really love to hear discussions about the pros and cons of the various alternatives especially as it relates to WordPress core and to plugins.
>
> -Mike
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