Apache Subversion to Migrate to Git

Post by rst » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 1:43 AM UTC

yeukhon wrote: post #31

rst wrote: post #29

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

At first I thought this was a serious thing even though I knew today is April 1st. While I was believing the news, the second sentence caught my attention: This will allow the development of the Subversion repository be developed with Git O_o

Post by Yhippa » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 1:59 AM UTC

colmmacc wrote: post #21

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.

Post by gavinpc » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 2:51 AM UTC

ternaryoperator wrote: post #24

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.

Post by yeukhon » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 3:57 AM UTC

rst wrote: post #32

yeukhon wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At first I thought this was a serious thing even though I knew today is April 1st. While I was believing the news, the second sentence caught my attention: This will allow the development of the Subversion repository be developed with Git O_o

But that's already been possible for a good long while. They wouldn't be the first people to find git-svn to be a better front end to Subversion than the one that comes with Subversion itself :-).