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On 04/14/2006 09:13 AM, Damjan Lampret wrote:

OK. Integration of SVN is on hold for now.
Can anyone with experience using git and SVN compare the two (besides Jeff)?
regards
Damjan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Carr" <basilarchia@g...>
To: "Discussion list about free open source IP cores" <cores@o...>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [oc]SVN - resolution

> On 04/14/2006 09:13 AM, Damjan Lampret wrote:
>> I'll ask the web admin to start with integration of SVN. I don't promise
>> anything. But the plan is to go slowly and implement SVN as an option to
>> the CVS, so both would be available. This will require changes to the
>> many parts of the web site, so it will take 2 months or so.
>
> Please rethink this, use git!
>
> While SVN is certainly nice in that it provides a web interface, so does
> git. However, SVN is terribly slow -- it's insanely CPU intensive. I
> don't think it's going to work well for a big project like this. If you
> are going to upgrade from cvs, upgrade to git. I see this as the trend.
>
> The Linux kernel developers have developed git over the last year:
> (http://kernel.org/git/). SVN was suggested, but it didn't win approval
> so git was written from scratch.
>
> If you are really going to follow a migration path to a newer SCM, this
> is a better path. X windows and Wine are examples of large free software
> projects that have gone in this direction.
>
> The important advantages:
>
> 1) git is cpu efficient
> 2) git is bandwidth efficient
> 3) git is smarter about offline development
>
> 3 is important/useful here. git makes a mirror (via rsync if you wish)
> of the repository on the server on to your local machine. This is smart!
> You have an exact mirror of the history, etc. Unlike CVS and SVN where
> what the server stores has no correlation to what you checkout.
>
> SVN is better than CVS, but it is still pale when put against git. If
> opencores is going to move forward, use git.
>
> Enjoy,
> Jeff
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