Re: Voting: do you want to move to git?

[Thomas Davie]

On 14 Feb 2012, at 13:48, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 14 Feb 2012, at 13:46, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> 
>> Keeping SVN is a mistake given what has been demonstrated by GNA's
>> failure.   SVN gives us a single point of failure.   A DVCS would
>> eliminate that problem.
> 
> I'm not sure I fully agree with this.  The single point of failure exists in 
> any system where w have an authoritative repository.  We could have an 
> official git-svn mirror somewhere, or even a svn mirror using svncync that 
> became the authoritative one when GNA was down if the only issue is being 
> able to get at the code when gna is down.

Just to throw an extra spanner in the discussion – darcs (the original DVCS) 
solves the above problem by regarding repositories as sets of patches instead 
of as lists of states, which allows you to take patches from any repository and 
push them into any other repository (given some constraints).  This means you 
can do away with the idea of an "authoritative" repo, and happily push changes 
between each other without issue.

Bob