[edt-dev] future: EDT will use Git not CVS

[Matthew Heitz <mheitz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi EDT,

I'm writing to give you some advance
notice of a big change in the way we develop EDT.  It will happen
sometime this summer.

For years, Eclipse has provided three
kinds of repositories for its projects' source code: CVS, Subversion, and
Git.  We chose CVS because many of us were familiar with it, and it
worked well.  Unfortunately, Eclipse is ending support for CVS on
Dec 21 of this year.  CVS at eclipse.org will become read-only.  They're
also planning to end support for Subversion eventually (a date has not
been set yet), so we will be moving to Git.

We'll make the change after RBD 8.5
is finished, which will probably be in mid-June.  I opened Bug 375113
to track the work.  Please use that bug to ask questions and to share
any helpful information you have about Git.

Personally, I know *nothing* about Git
except how to spell it.  My role in the move to Git will be to create
the new repository and move our source code (including the change history).
 I expect that we'll put together some kind of educational package
before the migration happens.  I may help with that too.

A starting point for learning about
Git is http://wiki.eclipse.org/Git#Committers_new_to_Git
.  If you'd like to experiment with it, you could check out git://dev.eclipse.org/org.eclipse.edt/org.eclipse.edt.git
.  It's a read-only Git repository that mirrors our CVS repository.

  -Matt

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Matt Heitz
Developer, Eclipse EGL Development Tools and IBM Rational Business Developer
http://www.eclipse.org/edt/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/products/rbde/