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

[Sebastian Klein]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 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

How would we deal with the plugins on openstreetmap.org? It should stay 
open for developers with access to the main subversion repository. And 
what about automatic update of the subversion externals?

In principle would be quite cool to switch to git. However subversion 
works reasonably well for us and there should be real advantages (other 
than being hip) to make up the work and potential problems of the change.

Thanks for setting up the github anyway, it made me start learning git 
and i feel a little enlightened now. :)


Sebastian