[mythtv] Any point in suggesting a switch to git...

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Ed W at 13/12/09 23:15 did gyre and gimble:
> Is there any interest in migrating to git

I very much don't count in this debate seeing as I've not written a
Myth* patch for a good few years, but one of the main benefits of DVCS
is the ability for potential contributors to work on the code more
easily and share their efforts.

This is obviously primarily of benefit for communities that are fairly
closed to primary repository access (for which there are perfectly valid
reasons!) as it still takes someone with official access to merge in the
relevant public trees.

As a general rule git is awesome and I'd almost always encourage any
subversion or cvs based project to use git instead.

That said the Trac integration is pretty poor still IMO. I've been
playing about with this today and had minimal success with a new
trac-git plugin mentioned on the trac-devel list last week. One of the
killers performance wise with previous git backends was the sync on
every request. One thing I did was hack the trac source to not do this
and instead I run a custom version of trac-admin resync in a
post-received hook in git. This helps performance a lot.

So feel free to ask me about this if a move is genuinely considered.

Col

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