git-svn and local feature branch (git svn dcommit error ?)

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Tue May 24 12:47:44 EDT 2011


On May 24, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>>> Once I perform the upgrade we could move the git sync to the server.
>>> Down the road we could still consider migrating from SVN to GIT
>>> completely?
>>> 
>> I think Geert, Christian, and I are ready to do that now. Not sure
>> about the others. Perhaps you'd want to do that as part of upgrading
>> Code?
> 
> Well, we'd have to update all the build scripts (both on the server and
> elsewhere) to build from git instead of building from SVN.  This
> includes (but is not limited to):
> 
> * doxygen source-docs build
> * gnucash-docs build
> * win32 build
> * www (This is one place that might be more challenging!)
> 
> Moreover, we would need to consider the security ramifications of a git
> push into a repo on code.gnucash.org.
> 
> I think that upgrading Code to a more recent OS is a necessary step, but
> the migration from SVN -> GIT can happen afterwards.
OK. I hadn't thought about the scripts. Git can deal with ssh, that's how Gnome does it, so security shouldn't be any more of a problem than with svn.

Regards,
John Ralls



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