From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@...>
Date: 2009-01-07T22:14:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21191] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git?

Hello,

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Michael Klishin
<michael.s.klishin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 07.01.2009, at 3:59, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
>> None the less, we could prepare the git repository synchronized with
>> the central repository.
>
>
> Matz,
>
> But what repository will core committers check into? Subversion or Git?
> Read-only clone of Git is far less useful than a Git repository where
> development happens,
> because it means changes are still shared as patches, so when people apply
> them, there is no history of changes, and it is always a lot of manual work
> for people
> who want to try out those changes.
>
> I just decided to ask so there are no fault expectations set.

I'm not Matz, but I would say that an official git mirror of the svn
repository is a necessary first step to begin a possible transition to
the new vcs. As has already been mentioned in this discussion,
switching to a different vcs is not something you do snapping your
finger, so there has to be a transition period where the new one is
nothing more than a mirror of the old one.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta