On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:56:46AM -0500, Joshua M. Ferraro wrote:
----- "MJ Ray" <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
git is dead easy. Really. If you're going to do something dangerous, you almost always can take a backup and put it back if you break things (it's just a directory on disk in many ways). Give it a go.
Also, if other koha developers had been using git and the cvs-compatibility commands, we could all have been working through this Savannah downtime.
It's not that git, arch, etc., are hard to use ... it's the concept and management of a distributed version control system, and the lack of a clear leader in this arena that leads me to conclude that DVC is not quite there yet. We don't have much bandwidth to devote to managing a version control system in this community, I don't want to hop from DVC to DVC as I've seen so many other projects do. Again, this is my opinion, I'm not speaking for the Koha community or for Paul / Chris ... I'd love to hear everyone else's thoughts on the matter.
I remember seeing that about git as well, that there are cvs-compatibility commands. I would much prefer to go with a distributed system than centralized. I have not used git, but have friends who have, and it has really helped their projects a lot. If someone knows how to set up a git repository, now is a great time to do it. Then at least people can play with git while we cannot access CVS. -kolibrie