On Sep 27, 2013, at 9:01 AM, Peter Münster
On Fri, Sep 27 2013, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
The last time I tried, merging multiple version in svn is a huge pain. One of the advantages of DVCS is that branching and merging are easy.
I understand. Please go ahead if you need git. My preference for svn is just my personal opinion, coming from my personal experience: people wanted to change a well running system, using the latest and greatest tools. In the end, after quite some efforts, there was no benefit, it was just a bit more complicated.
+1 from me: I have exactly the same experience personally.
I'm just lucky doing my 3 svn-commits per year, and with git I would do git-commits.
+1 again. The manual is on supelec because that is where the metapost and luatex repositories are, and it is a subversion repo because when the project was first added, the software system on supelec did not understand git. The current version of Forge does support git repos, but I never switched since (as I wrote above) I have a small personal preference for subversion. So it would be possible to have a git on supelec; for that reason there is no need to switch to github. There may be a small advantage to staying with supelec as then the main project URL does not have to change. OTOH, supelec's email stuff breaks easily and somewhat often. Best wishes, Taco