RFC: migrating to git

[Iavor Diatchki]

Hello,

I have been working on a GHC branch for the last few months and, for me,
switching to git would be a win because I find it quite difficult to keep my
branch and HEAD synchronized.  I allocate about a day, probably about once a
month, to redo my repository so that it is in sync with HEAD.

My background is that I use many VCSes for work (although lately, mostly
git), and git for my non-work projects.  I am by no means an advanced VCS
user.  I do like git's graph-based non-mutable history model and it has been
the only VCS where I've been able to work out how to do something more or
less "from first principles".  I don't really use the command line interface
much, I tend to use mostly tools like "gitk", and "git gui".

-Iavor

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:27:17PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >
> > It would be a prerequisite to switching that a GHC developer only has to
> > use one VCS.  So we either migrate dependencies to git, or mirror them
> > in GHC-specific git branches.
>
> I think it's hard to know how well it's going to work in advance (I was
> going to try redoing all the GHC 7 merges with git, but that won't tell
> us much if they would have been recorded differently in a git workflow),
> so perhaps we should change only the GHC repo at first, and see how it
> goes?
>
> That way, if we decide it's worse, we haven't done a lot of work
> migrating dependencies or setting up mirrors, and to roll back we only
> need to migrate the new git patches into the old darcs repo.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>
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