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

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> 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.

Well that did not change. I still run a lot of CVS repositories and would 
not convert them. I still see no sense in converting a SVN repository and 
currently I would still use SVN and not git as choice for new 
repositories.

Actually it would make a lot of work and even a lot of features seem to be 
missing. F.e. Trac integration seems to be very bad, which is a mjor 
drawback for josm.

And BTW - You underestimate the work regarding a repository switch. You 
would need to change the whole server backend including the webserver 
configuration, the trac scripts as well as cron-jobs to work with new 
system. As always there is a lot of stuff under the hood.

It is working fine now, so I see no need to change anything. Maybe I'm to 
old to experiment anymore, but for me stability is more important than 
beeing on the edge of development. I can't remember any reason to switch 
except 'I like it'.

Ciao
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