Re: DVCS

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:24:25PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali Khattak wrote:
>   I remember that at GUADEC, we were seriously thinking about
> migrating to git but the decision was postponed on Mark Shuttleworth's
> request. It's been some months since that and we are still stuck with

It wasn't delayed at his request. We sat in a presentation room with no
preparation at all do decide on a DVCS. That is not how I environ a BoF.
We discussed later in another room, but as I didn't ask for the BoF, I
didn't do any real preparation. In the end there was no real decision to
be made.

PS: As a BoF was planned, I asked if a few Bazaar devs could be
available for any technical questions, plus to check with GNOME
developers regarding Bazaar (to ensure it is ok). This is the reason
they were there, it wasn't thought up at Canonical. Bringing this up now
as I heard some people made other conclusions.

> 2. I want to move a module from o-hand SVN to gnome SVN while keeping
> the history intact and seems the only way of achieving that is to wait
> on bkor to get to import the svn dump. Don't get me wrong, I am not
> saying bkor is taking very long but I have no way of knowing when
> would he get time to do it.

If I'd enable property setting you could just do a svn sync. The reason
you can't is that I don't trust it. You could change svn:author etc for
any revision. I don't like it... such changes could be mailed and so on,
but I don't think people will notice. Meaning: affects security.

Now that you imported using Git it still isn't the import that I
would've done. Meaning: not everything under your userid, correct
timestamps, etc.

-- 
Regards,
Olav