[poppler] Switching source control tools.

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On 4/27/07, Brad Hards <bradh at frogmouth.net> wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007 04:52, Jeff Muizelaar wrote:
> > So what do people, especially Albert, think? Now that 302 is merged
> > (thanks Albert) we have time to do less constructive things like argue
> > about which SCM to use :)
> I'd prefer subversion, just because I'm already familiar with it. Not familiar
> with git, and I don't see decentralised as that big an advantage.

(Apologies for yet another bad car analogy)

I think that's a common position if you never tried git.  But there's
a difference between, say, buying a car, where you can pick and choose
only the features you want because you're going to drive it, and
selecting an SCM, where you'll just be one of several developers using
the tool.

The point I'm trying to make is that git can work in a centralized
mode just as well as svn, and if you don't care about the
decentralized features of git, just pretend they're not there.  Even
if you don't need the features, there's no need to prevent others from
benefitting from disconnected commits, local history browsing, local,
cheap branches and all that.

And just to clarify, git can be used in a number of ways.  In the
kernel community everybody has his own little tree and everybody
merges back and forth.  That's chaotic and confusing, and if this is
what people think of when they think about a decentralized SCM I can
understand the resistance.  What we're going to do in case we move
poppler to git is to set up a central repository on
git.freedesktop.org, and everybody who now has CVS commit access will
be able to push their changes into that repository.

Kristian