Dia on git.gnome.org (experimental repository)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

As the current maintainer of Dia I finally got around to check the 
experimental git repository, unfortuantely without much success.

My first attempt was a checkout (clone) for my main development platform 
(winxp, please don't shoot me;)) but after failing that I took a look form 
Linux as well.

My main question at the moment is (could not find an answer on 
gnome-infrastructure thread [0] or http://live.gnome.org/GitMigration) :

Will it be possible for a module maintainer on gnome.org to choose to stay 
with SVN?

Git from win32
==============
neither named nor anonymous cloning did work for me (works fine from Linux)

hb HB-T1XP /d/devel/from-git
$ git --version
git version 1.5.4.2.1161.g1a6f0

hb HB-T1XP /d/devel/from-git
$ git clone ssh://hans git gnome org/git/dia.git dia
Initialized empty Git repository in d:/devel/from-git/dia/.git/
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fetch-pack from 'ssh://hans git gnome org/git/dia.git' failed.


hb HB-T1XP /d/devel/from-git
$ git clone git://git.gnome.org/dia dia
Initialized empty Git repository in d:/devel/from-git/dia/.git/
git.gnome.org[0: 209.132.176.202]: errno=No such file or directory
fatal: unable to connect a socket (No such file or directory)
fetch-pack from 'git://git.gnome.org/dia' failed.

Probably I'm just doing something stupid with the URLs, because my cairo 
clone still seems to work with the same git version.

hb HB-T1XP /d/devel/from-git
$ git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/cairo cairo.2nd
Initialized empty Git repository in d:/devel/from-git/cairo.2nd/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 40543, done.←[K
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10625/10625), done.←[K
remote: Total 40543 (delta 30263), reused 40097 (delta 29878)←[K
Receiving objects: 100% (40543/40543), 26.84 MiB | 230 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (30263/30263), done.
Checking out files: 100% (1595/1595), done.

Conversion errors
=================
Looking at http://git.gnome.org/cgit/dia/ it appears to me that the
dia/trunk is not available at all. I assume it should have been mapped
to 'master', but there the last change is 7 month old regardless of
quite some activity in Dia trunk since than.

The last commit shown on master is:

commit 7fee0d296dc5d674dcf405ee722f32ae67c638f2
Author: Hans Breuer <hans src gnome org>
Date:   Sun Jun 29 16:08:33 2008 +0000

    [Patch from Thomas Harding fixing help generation for non-gnome case]
    without gnome install to $(helpdocdir) initialize HAVE_XSLTPROC
    conditionalize on HAVE_GNOME

    svn path=/trunk/; revision=4079

The SVN action apparently breaking the conversion was:

Revision: 4080
Author: hans
Date: 18:43:49, Sonntag, 29. Juni 2008
Message:
Copied remotely
----
Added : /branches/dia-0-90(Copy from path: /tags/dia_0_90, Revision, 4079


Choosing the right vcs?
=======================
In an earlier post Owen was mentioning a lot of "angst" [1] regarding the
switch from SVN to git, unfortunately I share that angst.

In the list of possible (distributed) version control systems from my
limited experience git is the one, which cares less for portability (fair
enough for being the Linux kernel version control system).

But for gnome.org where a lot of projects actually do care for portability
I think there should be official vcs support at least for major platforms 
we care about. And some usable gui integration would be nice, too [2].

Thanks,
	Hans

[0] 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2009-January/msg00033.html

[1] 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-January/msg00137.html

[2] http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

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