Project hosting on Github?

[Daniel Hahler]

I am looking into backshift and wondered if you have considered hosting the project on Github?

This would make it easier to track issues and provide patches.


Regards,
Daniel.

[Dan Stromberg]

I've considered both git and mercurial.

The main thing preventing going with one of them, is neither seems to do external references very well (I hope I'm wrong about that!), and I use external references pretty extensively in my svn.

Thanks for your interest.

BTW, at this time, trunk is quite a bit faster than any of the tags or branches.

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[Dan Stromberg]

FWIW, it's possible to get some of the advantages of git by using git as a client for an SVN server.

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[Daniel Hahler]

(My first answer to this appears to have been (accidentally) deleted).

You might be able to replace your use of SVN externals with Git submodules, which would reference whole repositories though (and not just specific files/subpaths).
You could have a separate directory for the submodules and then only symlink to specific files from where you need them, for example.

There is SubGit, which would allow you to seamlessly migrate from SVN to Git (by using both in parallel).
But that would make sense only, if you could use a remote Git repository for synchronization (Github) and is probably not worth the effort, if you intend to switch completely anyway.
See also https://help.github.com/articles/importing-from-subversion .


Cheers,
Daniel.