On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 02:43, Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Liangent liangent@gmail.com wrote:
Will MediaWiki repository be moved to Git?
Some people want to move to git. Some people like other DCVSes. There is a git mirror and running over on GitHub now[1] that you're free to fork and play with.
There are no set-in-stone plans for anything right now, just some mumblings by a few people.
-Chad
Right. As Chad says this is just a project to make a conversion to Git. Whether anyone ends up using it or not is another issue.
What we're trying to do is:
* Set up a git-svn mirror on github which people can use to work with MediaWiki's SVN through Git
We've been given free hosting by Github to do this there: http://support.github.com/discussions/site/1281-are-you-interested-in-giving...
Even if you don't want to use git-svn it's nice to have a mirror or Github just because it makes it easy for a lot of people already there to follow the project.
* Convert the MediaWiki Subversion repository to something that looks native in Git
This involves splitting up the repository & rewriting commits. See this E-Mail for info: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2010-February/046667.html
There are outstanding issues with both of these which I've filed in a tracker at Github here: http://github.com/mediawiki/mediawiki-svn/issues
If you (or anyone else) is interested in helping either one of those happen then by all means join us.