[Pharo-dev] [Vm-dev] Moving the Cog subversion repository to githup at 2016-6-16 7am UTC

[Tim Felgentreff]

Hi Ben,

Jakob is correct, but I think you were confused because Github also
allows you to use SVN against any of their repositories. However, both
options are strongly discouraged, because SVN *cannot* handle the
kinds of merges that Git is doing (because I would argue that SVN
doesn't actually handle merges properly at all - it leaves all the
work up to the developer). So using Github's SVN bridge on a
repository where not everyone else also uses that bridge will bring a
world of pain to all devs involved.

cheers,
Tim



On 16 June 2016 at 18:51, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Jakob Reschke
> <jakob.reschke at student.hpi.de> wrote:
>>
>> 2016-06-16 18:38 GMT+02:00 Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com>:
>>>
>>> btw, is anyone going to be using git-svn, or is everyone making the
>>> big jump pure git?
>>
>> Correct me, but I think there is no point to using git-svn here
>> because the main repository will be the git one. git-svn allows one to
>> use the git interface and play around with local branches where the
>> main repository is svn.
>
> Thanks.  I think I've misunderstood this the whole time, that you
> could use svn commands against the github repository.
> cheers -ben