[development] A Git mirror for Drupal CVS

[Victor Kane]

Just to add my two cents worth... This concept is doubly important, not only
in ridding the Drupal Community of the deprecated CVS on the level of source
code versioning; but also because of its powerful distribution features: it
is a _distributed_ version control system.

As per http://git.or.cz/

Besides providing a version control system, the Git project provides a
> generic low-level toolkit for tree history storage and directory content
> management.
>

Git gives each developer a local copy of the entire development history, and
> changes are copied from one such repository to another. These changes are
> imported as additional development branches, and can be merged in the same
> way as a locally developed branch.
>

What I mean is, git has strong implications for helping with the eternal
_build_ and development versioning problems now inherent in Drupal
site-building: branching from production to development, then back into
production...

It it's good enough for Linux, it's good enough for Drupal :)

Victor Kane
http://awebfactory.com.ar

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Gordon Heydon <gordon at heydon.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Mikkel Høgh wrote:
> > Hi Gordon,
> >
> > I have enabled "blame".
> > I'm glad to see that Git is catching on around the Drupal community. I
> > hope some day to be able to look back at CVS as only a bad memory ;)
>
> Yes that would be nice, but if something like git were to be adopted
> then we would still offer CVS as a entry level so people can easily
> commit stuff with having the ease of learning git.
>
> > And yeah, it is big. It took hours to import it with git cvsimport, but
> > amazingly, the whole repository only takes up 15MB, which is really
> > impressive to me, since it includes the entire CVS repository will
> > themes, images and code with a lot of changes these 8 years. That's like
> > 2MB per year.
>
> That is so cool, I need to check this out more.
>
> > I'm afraid that we won't be so lucky with the contributions repository,
> > but if we ever were to switch to Git or something like it, it would be
> > madness to continue to have all 1000+ modules in the same repository -
> > it's maddening enough already ;)
>
> Yes I have been thinking about this, and I think that we would need to
> break each of the projects out into there own repositories, so they
> would be easier to maintain, and divide up the permissions.
>
> I really like git a lot, and I would be interested in collaborating on
> this with you.
>
> Gordon.
>
> > //mikl
> >
> > Gordon Heydon wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This is great. I have a git mirror of the e-Commerce cvs and this
> >> looks great.
> >>
> >> I did try and make a drupal mirror but it would not import it because
> >> it was so big.
> >>
> >> It would be also nice if you can turn on blame which is like annotate.
> >>
> >> See what I have done at http://git.drupalecommerce.org
> >>
> >> Gordon.
> >>
> >> Mikkel Høgh wrote:
> >>> Forgive me my shameless self-promotion, but I'd like to draw
> >>> attention to my newly created Git-mirror of cvs.drupal.org
> >>>
> >>> Git ( http://git.or.cz/ ) is a great version control system that I
> >>> use to keep my Drupal-sites up-to-date, so a complete mirroring of
> >>> Drupals CVS with tags and branches and all is a great step forward -
> >>> for me at any rate.
> >>>
> >>> I've made a longer blog post about it here:
> >>> http://mikkel.hoegh.org/blog/2008/a_git_mirror_for_drupal_cvs
> >>>
> >>> The repository is here:
> >>> http://git.lion47.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>> Mikkel Høgh <mikkel at hoegh.org>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> > !DSPAM:1000,47bd521f234551804284693!
> >
>
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