[josm-dev] Open offer to convert JOSM to Git

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

In case it eluded anyone I'm pretty fond of Git [1][2]. The rails_port
has now switched over (with some help of mine), as well as Merkaartor
(with no help of mine). I've also set up Git mirror of JOSM on
GitHub[3] which I plan to keep up to date.

If the JOSM project is ever interested, I'd be willing to do all the
work of doing a full and proper conversion of the master
repository. This would mean:

  * Rewriting the history so that patches by other authors (through
    Trac) that have been applied by commiters get correct
    Author/Commiter metadata.

  * Adding tags to the repository to mark all previous rXXXX releases
    of JOSM to the correct Git commit.

  * Generally helping with any conversion issues.

There was some discussion of switching over the official repo last
year[2], but Dirk Stöcker didn't seem very impressed. That's fine, but
if that ever changes conversion won't be an issue, because I'll do it.

That's all.

1. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2010-April/004310.html
2. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2009-November/thread.html#3694
3. http://github.com/avar/josm