[haiku] Subversion to Git migration scheduled for November 12, 2011
- From: Niels Sascha Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:51:07 +0200
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Haiku Alpha 3 has been released, the summer (of Code) is over and it
is time to lay rest to Subversion and roll out a tool that is named
after a very unpleasant person: Git! [1]
On Saturday the 12th of November, Haiku will switch to Git. This means
that the current Subversion repository [2] will be marked read-only
and that the current Git mirror will become the default trunk to which
you can push your changesets. [3] This effectively means you have two
weeks to review your old Subversion check-outs and to commit any
changes you still want to put in. And if you are planning on making
some major changes, you can start using Git knowing that in two weeks
you can push your changes to the new repository.
The Subversion repository will be marked read-only on Saturday
November 12, 2011 at 09:00 GMT. At that point we will run some final
tests, and properly open up the new repository. It is expected to take
some hours. The actual work on the repositories will be carried out by
Oliver Tappe, and Niels Reedijk will flip some switches on
dev.haiku-os.org. The progress will be broadcasted on #haiku. [4]
During the previous period several tasks were carried out to prepare
for the actual migration. We wish to emphasise that this migration is
just the start, Git and the decentralized development paradigm will
offer new opportunities and new challenges that will pop up expectedly
and unexpectedly. Nontheless, after the migration we will have the
same basic functionality as we have now.
Finally a note for the ones new to Git. Soon we will start publishing
some links and references to basic tutorials. This should be enought
to get people started.
Kind regards!
Niels/Oliver
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Name
[2] http://svn.haiku-os.org/
[3] http://git.haiku-os.org/
[4] On the freenode IRC server
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