[josm-dev] Please add the walkingpapers description to the scan-info section in the HTML source for JOSM

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Dirk Stöcker
<openstreetmap at dstoecker.de> wrote:
> As far as I understand it, git has the possibility to access SVN
> repositories [2] as well (at least some of the JOSM tickets contained git
> based patches). So there is no need to use git for main repository when
> only some users want to use it.

That's a non sequitur actually, the git-svn frontend is conduit
between SVN and has its limited uses but converting between
centralized and distributed version control is always going to be a
case of casting a square peg into a round hole.

You'll get some distributed features with such frontends like being
able to make offline commits, but unless it's being used on a
project-wide level you can't for example commit back losslessly
without having svn write access, or ask the maintainer to pull
patchsets from your repository.

Not that I'm an active enough JOSM contributor to really care about
this, I just wanted to correct the misunderstanding.