Redmine

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I think moving trunk development from SVN to Git is a fantastic idea. Git itself has so many powerful features that make it easier to organize your commits and patches, branch and merge easily, work locally and collaborate more effectively -- it's really a joy to work with. Also, GitHub.com is a great tool for managing open source projects with several contributers. It lets anyone track the various lines of development being worked on using the "Network Graph" and it also makes a repository maintainer's life so much easier with its "Pull Request" and "Fork Queue" functionality. There's really no question in my mind that moving to git is the only logical next step for the redmine project.

Or another good alternative is Mercurial that is quite similiar to Git - except that Git is not fun for developers playing in Windows, Mercurial runs a bit better there. But yes, I'll really agree that DVCS would fit better to projects like Redmine.

Well there is msysgit (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) but as I don't develop in Windows I don't know how good it is.

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

That's very sexy.. :)

(It didn't existed at all when I was evaluatin SVN replacement for our windows devs...)

But yes. +1 to DVCS (whatever choice will be)

I've been using git on Windows at home and at work for a few months now and I can testify that it works great. Admittedly, I did miss TortoiseSVN for a little while but Git GUI is really quite good and a TortoiseGit is well on its way as noted above. For anyone who's interested, check out this Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows.

+1

As the maintainer of the Redmine fork on GitHub I'd love to move completely to git. I'm already using a git repository for private patches to Redmine and a staging area before committing to svn. Moving to git would also let me to help merge release branches and keep 0.8.x up to date with trunk.

Once Redmine moves to git, I can reorganize the Github repository so each branches/work shows up as a separate git branch. All the other branches and tags are already there.

Eric

+1

Eric Davis wrote:

Once Redmine moves to git, I can reorganize the Github repository so each branches/work shows up as a separate git branch. All the other branches and tags are already there.

Hopefully #1387 will be fixed then... :)

Well, until we can coax Jean over to Git, may I suggest git-svn?

And while I know that the GUI tools are nice, I still find that they break often or otherwise do things I don't want them to do. Terminal windows all the way for me! Beyond msysgit, there's also Cygwin.

Chris Miller wrote:

Well, until we can coax Jean over to Git, may I suggest git-svn?

There is an offical mirror on GitHub: http://github.com/edavis10/redmine/tree/master

Chris Miller wrote:

Well, until we can coax Jean over to Git, may I suggest git-svn?

That's what I'm using to mirror the GitHub version.

Eric

+1 with bold. but it just only one.