Re: [henshin-dev] Migrating to git

[Riegerf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Christian,

Quoting Christian Krause <henshin.ck@xxxxxxxxx>:
> one month ago I wrote an e-mail with the subject "Release planned  
> for beginning of November". I don't see how anyone could miss that.

A week ago, you talked about needing roughly two weeks. I think it's  
great to release now, I was just proposing to do some maintenance  
tasks now, as the release seems to have been possible earlier than  
anticipated.

> Regarding Git: I do not really have the time to learn Git, to  
> migrate our repository, and to adapt our build scripts to Git.  
> Besides, I don't see why we would need Git.

There are several reasons for migrating to git, amongst them some  
rather good ones. Eclipse is migrating to git at large, so it's  
sensible to also migrate (we will have to migrate eventually, so we  
could as well do it now). However, this is very much a non-argument;  
oen of the real advantages of git is the extremely good branching and  
merging mechanism. Git makes branches, merging and reintegrating  
extremely easy, so I see advantages in migrating to git if we should  
be planning to do lots of branches and integrate them into the trunk.
I think our overall development process can benefit from a a version  
control system that focuses heavily on creating, synchronizing and  
merging branches, such as git.

Felix