[FFmpeg-devel] [CHECKLIST] what is preventing us from switch to git

[Måns Rullgård]

Alex Converse <alex.converse at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:37:17AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>> I noticed that more and more people started to use git instead of svn to
>>> contribute to ffmpeg, I'm wondering if the times are now mature to switch
>>> to git.
>>>
>>> Could you please raise (again) your concerns about switching to git?
>>
>> personally i dont really care if we use svn,cvs or git the differences
>> dont matter much in normal everyday development if one has a write account.
>>
>> a few points id like to raise though are that
>> * a switch if it is done should not
>> ?be done during SOC to not burden the students unneccessarily
>
> SoC is now done
>
>> * It should be announced at least 2 weeks before its done so people
>> ?have a bit of time to get used to git and maybe to commit outstanding
>> ?changes from their svn checkout
>> * We need to document, a short cheat sheet that lists the
>> ?git equivalents to the common svn commands (that of course before
>> ?a switch is done)
>>
>
> Perhaps it is time to to start moving forward on this.

I don't have time before next month.

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