On 07.08.2009, at 10:30, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
Ceki Gulcu skrev:
My question is then whether moving to git is worth the trouble and whether it will encourage contributions by making it easier for developers to contribute. From a strictly personal point of view, the fact that git works in disconnected mode is a killer feature.
Since you are the project leader, and the primary committer, I believe you should do whatever you think allows you to be more efficient while still allowing others to provide patches.
I agree with Robert that good tooling is essential.
There is a Java implementation of git available at http:// www.jgit.org/ so I guess tooling (Maven, Eclipse) is really just a question of time. The current IDEA is already supporting git. I've never used GIT beside checking out a repository but I have only heard praise from people that are using it regularly. For Windows, http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ seems to do a pretty good job. For Mac OS X there's a tool called GitX http://gitx.frim.nl/ but I haven't tried it yet. Looks promising. You can find a seemingly very good book on GIT at http://progit.org/book/ - reading it is still pretty high on my TODO list. I'd like to encourage that you give it a try - that way I have to do the same ;) Joern.