[osmosis-dev] Version Control Full History and GIT Test

[Brett Henderson]

Hi Igor,

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Igor Podolskiy <
igor.podolskiy at vwi-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> Hi Brett,
>
>   • I'm pondering a move to GIT.  Primarily because it gives people a
>>
>> better opportunity to experiment with the codebase.  Secondly because I
>> am experimenting with GIT anyway and wanted a real-world task to work
>> with.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts re a possible GIT move?
>>
> that would be _really_ cool. In fact, I've been running more or less of a
> mirror of the latest revisions of Osmosis trunk on Github [1]. It is really
> much simpler to work and try things out and keep track of upstream and so on
> than with SVN. There's even a place for a GIT repository already, the
> Openstreetmap organization on GitHub [2].
>

I'll check those links out.  I know very little about GitHub (or Git for
that matter) so I don't know how users, organisations, etc work.


>
> The only thing we'd need to change would be the build script for the
> snapshot version string - currently it uses the SVN revision. In
> osmosis-fastused, I already made a similar Ant build script which uses the
> git revision (or tag, if available), to be found here [3].
>

Cool, thanks for that.

I still have some work to do before I have a complete migration tool.  I
think my re-built SVN repo is looking good but I need to do all the GIT
merge steps now including preservation of existing tags.  As soon as I get
that working I'll incorporate your build changes.

Brett
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