<div dir="ltr">As I understand it the issue here is that most SWORD stuff is in CVS, not SVN and it's a little harder to use git as a front end client for CVS than it is for SVN. It can be done (see <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/a/586225/313192">http://stackoverflow.com/a/586225/313192</a>), but isn't easy. There is a high barrier to entry even for those familiar with _both_ systems.<div>
<br></div><div>I know the subject is being beaten to death lately but to add one more voice: there are those of us out here just waiting to contribute and participate when the toolset becomes less arcane. Non-distributed version control simply makes it too hard and too frustrating to experiment and then cleanup those experiments for contribution. The result is fewer contributions and less quality review and cooperation on the ones that do happen.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have quite a bit of git know-how including migrations from other VCS systems and would be willing to help anybody on the SWORD team with migration issues or just coming up to speed with DVS in general. I also have experience hosting git servers including Gitlab if they would like to run something like that internally to coordinate (and control) contributions. In fact I would be willing to donate hosting a Gitlab instance if that's what it takes. This would allow fairly fine grained control over repos and even branches, specifying who is and isn't allowed to push to which ones. At the same time as keeping a tight reign on the quality of the master fork and branch, folks could also freely have their own copies of the repo and easily submit pull requests for for review similar to how the Github workflow functions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Feel free to contact me on or off list about any of the above and know that there will be much rejoicing out here when migration does happen!</div><div><br></div><div>Caleb </div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Baiju M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baiju.m.mail@gmail.com" target="_blank">baiju.m.mail@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Using git-svn, it is possible to use git as a client for svn:<br>
<a href="http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/12/git-svn-tips-and-tricks/" target="_blank">http://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/12/git-svn-tips-and-tricks/</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Baiju M</p>
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