On 22 March 2012 03:09, Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks for your patience with this move. We hope you enjoy working with Git (or, if you're currently a skeptic, at least come to appreciate it). With the combination of Git and the workflow changes it enables, we're pretty excited by our new ability to deploy code more frequently, and we're pretty optimistic that we'll be able to actually get that benefit sooner rather than later.
Thank you. I still hate it very much and currently the benefits don't justify the pain for me. My code review process is totally ruined: * I don't get commit mails anymore (only from Translate) * I have no clue what is happening anymore because of the above * I have to do tens of clicks to just see the diff (this will certainly reduce the code review I will do to anything else but my own pet projects like Translate extension) * When the diff was included in the emails, I could easily scan in an hour in the morning all the new commits, review the easy ones, add the other important ones to the queue and be happy knowing that I didn't miss anything.
-Niklas
PS: Please publish widely the recommended way to setup MediaWiki with mixed git/svn extensions and how to keep them updated with single command that is as easy as svn up.