[Sputnik-list] gitorious (was: proposed versium modifications)

[Jim Whitehead II]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Yuri Takhteyev <yuri at sims.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >  Make a branch and commit regularly. I may help as next week would be
>  >  relatively free for me.
>  >  For this you could try git, I have setup one at gitorious :
>  >  http://gitorious.org/projects/sputnik/repos/mainline
>
>  I tried it and I do like it.  The difference in performance between
>  git and svn is quite astonishing.  I've been actually thinking about
>  switching to a distributed vcs and was looking at launchpad but wasn't
>  too excited about bzr, thinking git would be a better option (and more
>  politically correct for the Lua world).  So, this might do it.

I'm also a fan of git and have been very impressed with the overall operation.

>  I am a little concerned that gitorious.org seems to be really new.  I
>  suppose it's not as big of a deal with git since it's easy to backup
>  the whole repository, so if gitorious dies tomorrow it would be easy
>  to move elsewhere.  And people seem to say that synching git to svn
>  and back is not too difficult...

I would say github over gitorious for a number of reasons, tarballs,
ticket tracker, etc.

- Jim