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Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by colmmacc » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 12:44 AM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #4

Give it a year and the Apache Software Foundation's sites will be switching to nginx.

Full disclosure: I'm an ASF member and one of the httpd developers and PMC members.

We're actually planning an experimental migration to nginx as part of Apachecon this coming weekend.

Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by clhodapp » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 12:48 AM UTC

Maxious wrote: post #6

Some interesting discussion going on in this ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524

This ticket is linked from the second word of the article. What does this comment add to the discussion?

Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by jonaldomo » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 12:48 AM UTC

I just put a doc together on how to migrate from svn to git on my blog at http://jmoses.co/2014/03/21/moving-from-svn-to-git.html for all who is interested.

Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by ternaryoperator » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 12:57 AM UTC

impostervt wrote: post #3

I really thought it was an April fools joke...

Given the competition between SVN and Git, this would be a very poor choice for an April fool's joke. You don't put out false information that makes you look like you're ceding to your chief competitor, when you're in the weaker position.

Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by bbanyc » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 1:09 AM UTC

grkvlt wrote: post #12

I'm kind of confused at the people who thought this was an April Fool joke. Really? If the announcement was on a news site or blog, maybe, but a 'Task' issue on the INFRA JIRA is hardly the appropriate venue. Although, it seems that @jimjag (the ASF director) was pretty pissed at the Subversion PMC and lead [1] for making the decision without consulting the community, just taking a vote from the committers. Note that…

SVN was designed as an API that could support multiple backends (they've already moved from one based on BerkeleyDB to the current ad-hoc one). Git was designed as a backend for a version control system that was supposed to get a cleaner frontend API but never did. Set aside the trollish April 1 announcement - a Git-based SVN could actually work.

Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by stevenspasbo » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 1:24 AM UTC

Well it was just closed as Not a Problem and "April Fools" was added to the title.

Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by rabino » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 1:25 AM UTC

Yeah, it was a joke. [0]

A pretty long one at that.

[0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?focusedComm...

Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 1:27 AM UTC

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Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by rst » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 1:33 AM UTC

Now definitively an April Fool's joke.

Greg Stein's latest, and presumably last, comment on the JIRA ticket that started this furore: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?focusedComm...

(ETA: they've also added "April Fools" to the title of the ticket itself.)

Quoting:

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Resolving as "Not a problem". We sure as hell don't want to do this. :-)

My major thanks to [~jfarrell] for the concept.

And plenty of thanks to all of my co-conspirators on this issue. Yes.. even my antagonist [~jimjag] was in on the ruse :-) … the Infra team handled this with perfect aplomb. And the Directors and Exec Officers came in with a perfect level of wrath. Our Subversion teammates showed a great sense of community and circling the wagons… Thank you all for making this work!!!

Last but not least…

THANK YOU to all of you who actually BELIEVED.

Re: Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

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Post by goshawk » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 1:34 AM UTC

I just think the PMC just figured out that they cannot compete with git and it's services (github, anyone?) so they are just doing the most natural thing to do using git. This is complemented with the ra_git upcoming release that will enable better svn/git integration. Having a svn that is able to talk with a git backend natively enables users to use tools designed for git also with svn. Many everyday git users i know complain about the verbose workflow that git imposes. Some of them even made scripts that mime svn update like behavior using git stash/pull --rebase and other svn like commands. So svn could really have a place being a git frontend with a simplified workflow

In short: may look silly, but in the long run i don't think it's a bad idea.