Plans for git

Chris bsd-lists at bsdforge.com
Thu Sep 3 19:32:04 UTC 2020


On 2020-09-03 11:33, Kristof Provost wrote:
> On 3 Sep 2020, at 19:56, Chris wrote:
>> Why was the intention to switch NOT announced as such MUCH sooner?
>> 
> There was discussion about a possible switch to git on the freebsd-git 
> mailing
> list as early as February 2017:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-git/2017-February/000092.html
> 
> Ed gave a talk about FreeBSD and git back in 2018:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wQ88d85s4
> 
> The Git Transition Working group was mentioned in the quarterly status 
> reports a
> year ago: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-07-2019-09.html 
> and
> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.html
It appears to me that the references you make here all allude to 
_investigation_
of a _possibility_ as opposed to a _likelihood_, or an _inevitable_.
IMHO a change as significant as this, which will require tossing years of 
tooling
out the window, and an untold amount of _re_tooling. Should have created an
announcement at _least_ as significant as a new release gets on the mailing
lists.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, Kristof.
> 
> Regards,
> Kristof

--Chris


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