[sf-perl] Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System (fwd)

Kevin Frost biztos at mac.com
Sun Jan 4 21:24:48 PST 2009


PS, looks like GitHub has a mirror of the whole thing.  Lordy.  I only  
looked at the top directory and my head is already spinning...

http://github.com/blog/276-perl-mirror-on-github

Or just jump right in:

http://github.com/github/perl/tree/blead

-- f.


On Jan 4, 2009, at 9:21 PM, Kevin Frost wrote:

> I just moved a bunch of my own stuff to Git from Subversion and  
> while I'm very, very far from having any kind of "gitspertise" I  
> must say I like the feel of it more than I expected to, even for  
> solo development.
>
> So I, for one, welcome our trash-talking Finnish overlords.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
>
> Now if we could just get all of CPAN onto it....
>
> Veering now into the seriously off-topic, I should also mention I'm  
> using GitHub and so far I like it.  They host OSS projects for free,  
> they're cheap for private stuff, and they back up to Amazon S3.   
> They're not bug-free and they're Ruby people, but nobody's  
> perfect. :-)
>
> -- f.
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Matthew Lanier wrote:
>
>>
>> FYI, not sure if this came up here yet.
>>
>> m@
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Matthew D. P. K. Strelchun-Lanier
>> matt at lanier.org
>> http://www.bearlywornpacifica.com
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Sun,  4 Jan 2009 09:05:02 -0800 (PST)
>> Subject: Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System
>>
>> Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/04/1610256
>> Posted by: Soulskill, on 2009-01-04 16:53:00
>>
>>  [1]On Elpeleg writes "The Perl Foundation has announced they are
>>  [2]switching their version control systems to git. According to the
>>  announcement, Perl 5 migration to git would allow the language
>>  development team to take advantage of git's extensive offline and
>>  distributed version support. Git is open source and readily  
>> available
>>  to all Perl developers. Among other advantages, the announcement  
>> notes
>>  that git simplifies commits, producing fewer administrative  
>> overheads
>>  for integrating contributions. Git's change analysis tools are also
>>  singled out for praise. The transformation from Perforce to git
>>  apparently took over a year. Sam Vilain of Catalyst IT 'spent more
>>  than a year building custom tools to transform 21 years of Perl
>>  history into the first ever unified repository of every single  
>> change
>>  to Perl.' The git repository incorporates historic snapshot releases
>>  and patch sets, which is frankly both cool and historically  
>> pleasing.
>>  Some of the patch sets were apparently recovered from old hard  
>> drives,
>>  notching up the geek satisfaction factor even more. Developers can
>>  download a copy of the current [3]Perl 5 repository directly from  
>> the
>>  perl.org site, where the source is hosted."
>>
>> References
>>
>>  1. mailto:info at web-app.net
>>  2. http://use.perl.org/article.pl? 
>> sid=08/12/22/0830205&mode=nocomment
>>  3. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_git_repositories
>>
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