[ros-dev] Re: Git Migration Newsletter

[Thomas Mueller]

from Colin Finck:

>   Let me give a public update about our Git Migration
> Decisions after the last
>  meeting: 
        
>   * The migration of our SVN repository
> "reactos" is going to happen in
>  September/October. 
>   * https://github.com/reactos/reactos will become our
> master repository as we
>  want to take advantage of GitHub's Pull Request features.
>  This means, all developers must register for GitHub accounts now. 
>   * git.reactos.org will remain as a replication slave.
> If we ever have severe
>  problems with GitHub, we can switch back to a self-hosted Git in no time. 
        
>   * We will enforce a linear history in the
> "master" branch through server-side
>  GitHub settings. You may create and push as many branches as you want and do
>  whatever you want there, but when you want to commit the changes back to
>  "master", you can only do so over a "git rebase". 
        
>   * BuildBot builds will get a naming scheme like:
>       reactos-bootcd-0.4.7-dev+344-5f3c53e2a-gcc.7z
>     That means 344 commits after the tag
> "0.4.7-dev" has been created, with this
>  particular commit having the short hash "5f3c53e2a".
>  Whenever we branch for a release like "0.4.6", we will now not just create the
>  branch, but also tag "master" with "0.4.7-dev" to make this naming
> scheme
>  possible. 

>   More newsletters like this may follow when I have more
> information to share or
>  get the impression that some decisions haven't reached all developers yet. 
Is there a convenient way to migrate an svn tree to git, or would it be necessary to
git-clone to a separate tree?

Will the boot CD images be in 7z (p7zip) format:

What has kept me from trying ReactOS is not having a place to put it, considering ReactOS
does not successfully boot from USB.

My hard drives are partitioned GPT.

Tom