Why using git would be awesome for nexuiz

[Psychcf]

I think that if nexuiz were to use git, it would be extremely awesome. Here's why:

* First off, git handles binary files way better then SVN does. It's also easier to branch and tag the repo as well. Checkouts would be much faster, and the local checkout of the repository will be much smaller.
* Second, if we were to use something like GitHub, it would make forking the codebase a lot easier. It would encourage people to post up their improvements, and would make it easy to pull those changes into the main repository. IMO, this is the biggest advantage of using git, since community patches are all the rage right now.


We can migrate the current svn repository to git quite easily, I'm in the process of doing it right now for my class-based mod. Github makes this extremely easy, they have a web-based tool that lets you do it without even touching a command line.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Once github is finished, the code for that will be available here:
http://github.com/psychcf/nexuiz-classbased/tree/master

[divVerent]

icculus.org currently doesn't support git, so this is out of the question for now.

[parasti]

Came across this while googling for a git-svn usable Nexuiz repo. For what it's worth, Icculus does support Git and has for some time (at least a few years I think): http://git.icculus.org/.

[alpha]

svn > git

[Alien]

Please elaborate.

[[-z-]]

svn > git

Total bullshit


http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=4XpnKHJAok8

[alpha]

Please elaborate.

SVN (more than) GIT

was, is, will be

[[-z-]]

So ignorant. SVN is fundamentally flawed and a VCS like git, which is distributed, could be very beneficial to an open-source project. No need to branch because technically every user has their own fork, and resolving the differences when pushing to the master becomes easier in these smaller chunks. This means less wasted time.

[Alien]

Actually, Mercurial is better than those two.

For comparison: http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python ... 87931.html

[GreEn`mArine]

I've watched linuses speech about GIT, yet, some things they claim (e.g. "much faster") is ... well, no surprise if git encourages you to use much smaller projects. I don't see how full nexuiz svn checkout would be much slower compared to a full git checkout of nexuiz. You need to download it from a host, there is bandwith that limits you, and no great tool won't come past that.

Apart from that I haven't quite understood yet how you can share your own repository when you are "just a user" behind a firewall. How does that work?