[development] A Git mirror for Drupal CVS

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Feb 25 20:44:56 UTC 2008


Quoting Liam McDermott <liam at intermedia-online.com>:

> Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
>> What we coud do (as long as the relevant backend for the project module
>> exists) is to move core development to git. There we are free of social
>> reasons.
>
> This sounds like an excellent idea! The only problem is having to 
> maintain two seperate version control systems at the same time. On a 
> related point: if this works for core, would it not make sense to 
> allow contrib maintainers the option to use Git instead of CVS?
>
> Make Git optional and contrib maintainers can move over at their own 
> speed. If/when a Windows GUI client becomes available for example. It 
> would also be interesting to see how many people stick with CVS, if 
> nearly everyone switches their modules/themes to Git, CVS could be 
> deprecated pretty quickly.
>
> Just throwing some ideas around. Sorry if this has all been said before. :)
>

Nice idea.  Now all that is left is the work to help Derek with making 
the transition for the project module.

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