From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Vilain Subject: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:09:32 +1200 Message-ID: <46258BEC.7050603@vilain.net> References: <20070417104520.GB4946@moonlight.home> <8b65902a0704170841q64fe0828mdefe78963394a616@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tomash Brechko , git@vger.kernel.org, Pietro Mascagni To: Guilhem Bonnefille X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 18 05:09:43 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1He0YA-0006Py-1q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:09:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030880AbXDRDJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:09:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031025AbXDRDJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:09:39 -0400 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:54307 "EHLO magnus.utsl.gen.nz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030880AbXDRDJi (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:09:38 -0400 Received: by magnus.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 54AB813A400; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:09:36 +1200 (NZST) Received: from [192.168.2.22] (leibniz.catalyst.net.nz [202.78.240.7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by magnus.utsl.gen.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CD313A382; Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:09:32 +1200 (NZST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070307) In-Reply-To: <8b65902a0704170841q64fe0828mdefe78963394a616@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on mail.magnus.utsl.gen.nz X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: > I'm new to Git, but completly crazy of it. > > In my point of view, in corporate team, lot of people does not > want/need the power offered by Git. > So, my conclusion is the better model in a corporate is a centralyzed > repo with some users using Git as "frontend". Other people will simply > use the native tools for accessing the repo. > > I didn't try Git with CVS repo but seems less usable in day to day > work than a SVN repo with git-svn FANTASTIC tool. > > So the problem is simply now: how to convince people to migrate from > CVS to SVN. This will be really less difficult as CVS and SVN are > quite similar. > Once git-svnserver is available, it should be possible to work the other way, too - use git as the repository format and support Subversion users through a subversion interface flavour. Then you don't lose the merge tracking and fast checkout performance for those who can use the native protocol. Sam.