Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] CGRAN down indefinitely, but hopefully not for long (want feedback)

[Martin Braun]

On 29.09.2014 14:55, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> I have no religious convictions about git vs svn.
>
> I'd have to change a couple of scripts [...]

When CGRAN was inaugurated, github wasn't as popular as it was (and GNU 
Radio was still on SVN itself). We would not have gone for a central SVN 
repo if github had been on our radar back then.

I guess most people either share Marcus' sentiment, or are biased 
towards git. So, ditching SVN is pretty much a no-brainer.

However, one major difference between SVN and git is that the latter 
doesn't have the concept of every dir being a repo in and of itself.
This means if we simply pushed everything to a giant github repo, that 
would not be terribly useful (definitely not a replacement for CGRAN), 
although I can see that being a temp solution so that at the very least, 
nothing is lost (a big advantage of using github is that they're less 
likely to lose data).

Really, every CGRAN project should be pulled into it's own little repo, 
e.g. on github. Migrating from SVN to git is really easy (even with 
preserving history and all). I guess we could put up instructions on how 
to do that if there's popular demand.

However, there's also the wiki pages on CGRAN. We do need a strategy for 
those (and a way to access them).

Keep the ideas and comments coming, people!

Cheers,
M