Why using git would be awesome for nexuiz

[divVerent]

So how would it help to use git-svn to mirror the svn repository, like you suggested?

[parasti]

So how would it help to use git-svn to mirror the svn repository, like you suggested?

The only use for a git-svn mirror I can think of is to reduce the time it takes to set up your own git-svn repo. A "git clone" takes a fraction of the time it would take to fetch all the revisions directly from SVN (a checkout of trunk alone takes as long as cloning the mirror with entire history of all branches) and of course eliminates any load on the SVN server itself.

But I wasn't even suggesting anything, because I already found a mirror (set up by Psychf on Github) and used it to set up my own repo. I bumped the thread because I knew Icculus has Git support and a yes or no hadn't been given yet.

[divVerent]

So in other words, you people already have your toy. can you post the access data to the mirror on github so everyone can be happy and use it, instead of demanding we switch to another SCM?

[C167]

commit access to the github mirror does not help as far as i know, cause you still need svn commit access

[some-guy]

AFAIK, it is

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git clone git://github.com/psychcf/nexuiz-classbased.git

But this also includes the class mutator (not bad, just means it's not the exact same as svn)

[[-z-]]

yeah, IIRC that's outdated...

[Blµb]

why isn't the class thingy made as a branch? Isn't that what git's supposed to do so well?

[some-guy]

why isn't the class thingy made as a branch? Isn't that what git's supposed to do so well?

Well, that repo is supposed to be a branch of nexuiz svn, so...

[divVerent]

commit access to the github mirror does not help as far as i know, cause you still need svn commit access

So in the end, you just want commit access for everyone?

The decision on who gets commit access and who doesn't does not depend on the SCM being used. The situation would be the VERY SAME with git.

[parasti]

So in other words, you people already have your toy. can you post the access data to the mirror on github so everyone can be happy and use it, instead of demanding we switch to another SCM?

The repo URL is git://github.com/psychcf/nexuiz-classbased.git. The master branch has Psychf's changes and is out of sync with SVN, but the repo has a bunch of remote-tracking branches that appear to be completely in sync with all SVN branches (probably due to some Github feature). Plain "git clone" won't fetch them, though, so you'd need to do something like

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mkdir repo
cd repo
git init
git svn init --prefix=svn/ -s svn://svn.icculus.org/nexuiz
git fetch git://github.com/psychcf/nexuiz-classbased.git refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/svn/*
git checkout -b master svn/trunk
git svn rebase

I did it differently (and in a more complicated way, in retrospect), so I haven't tested all this.

BTW, nobody cares about commit access. Git is a DVCS, which means everyone has their own repo, so there's no political nonsense about who gets or doesn't get commit access. Patch reviews would be great, though.