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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?
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Kevin Fenzi |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans? |
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Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:30 -0600 |
On Fri, 24 May 2013 20:25:33 +0000
"Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> That sounds extremely helpful. For me, time is of course, also the
> issue. (And I probably shouldn't be writing this at work.) ;-)
> But I'm self employed, so I'm not at risk of punishing myself. I'm
> just not spending my time billing somebody right now, when I should
> be. But I like doing this, so here I am. ;-) Beats doing
> facebook or tweeting at work. Fundamentally the same thing. Writing
> on the internet.
>
> If you wouldn't mind, doing exactly as you say - seeing what obvious
> low hanging fruit exists, and trying to get more info about that, it
> would definitely be time well spent.
>
> Also, I don't know if you'll need permissions either. So simply
> getting the answer to THAT question will already represent forward
> momentum. ;-) I now have obtained nearly all the permissions on
> this project, so I think I should be able to grant that.
great. Will try and take a look this weekend and see what I can do.
> > Another unrelated thing... currently source is in svn. Git is the
> > new hotness, perhaps it would be worth seeing how hard it would be
> > to migrate?
>
> You're right. Until a couple weeks ago, it was under CVS. And I
> shyly with a slight little gesture of embarassment, converted to svn
> intentionally instead of git. From a technical standpoint, I do
> personally think git will be better than svn for this project, but my
> motiviation for selecting svn was thus:
...snip good reasoning...
> There are still a bunch of people out there who know svn because of
> work and haven't surmounted the obstacle of learning git... I chose
> svn to be conservative and avoid creating any obstacles for new
> developers.
>
> Anybody who's in love with git is probably already using git2svn for
> other projects ...
Sure, thats fine. Git I think has a lot of advantages in contribution
however. It's very easy for someone to clone off your project on github
and submit a pull request back as a patch.
Anyhow, I won't press the issue, use whatever you like best and works
for the project. You can always change later or adjust.
kevin
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- [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?, Kevin Fenzi, 2013/05/23
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?, Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup), 2013/05/24
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- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?, Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup), 2013/05/24
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?, Kevin Fenzi, 2013/05/24
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Plans?, Edward Ned Harvey (rdiff-backup), 2013/05/24
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