[VTK ARB] Git-SVN

[Steve Pieper]

Hi Guys -

As diligence we should review the ways other projects address similar 
issues.  Lately I've been tracking the neuroimaging python project with 
uses bzr (similar to hg and git) which has some nice features for 
organizing code reviews and merges.

https://launchpad.net/nipy

That said, I've gotten the impression that the team might not pick bzr 
again if they were starting over (some complaints about performance and 
repository size).

If we know of interesting tools/methodologies we may want to query the 
developers using those systems to get feedback on how it works for them 
in practice as we contemplate optinons.  As Berk mentioned, this will be 
a disruptive change so we want to be sure whatever tool is used will be 
stable and workable.

-Steve

Will Schroeder wrote:
> Paolo-
> 
> This is great., I can already see that I am going to learn a lot. Let's 
> leave some time for discussion, and then schedule a meeting in the near 
> future to discuss this and other matters.
> 
> Will
> 
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Paolo Quadrani <p.quadrani at cineca.it 
> <mailto:p.quadrani at cineca.it>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear all,
>     attached you can find a document that make a comparison between Git
>     and SVN.
> 
>     For new version of our MAF framework we decided to use SVN as main
>     repository for code sharing and then each developer if want can have
>     its own Git local repository to manage its own history for its local
>     code changes, and maintain changes also if it has no network connection.
> 
>     Just a comment on code contribution: if someone wants to contribute
>     with its code, I think that you cannot accept code without
>     documentation (in doxygen style for example) and the related test
>     class that prove that the code works.
> 
>     I can propose also that submitting code could be done through a web
>     interface that present a form to be filled with fundamental
>     information that the code must have and you decide what is important
>     for you and for validating the code. This means that you filter at
>     begin the code and accept only valid code and don't loose time to
>     review tons of classes sent via mail.
>     There should be also some pre checks for checking that coding
>     conventions are respected. For MAF we have some python scripts that
>     check that classes have the documentation inside and it is written
>     in doxygen style, scripts that check that code is written respecting
>     the coding convention and so on.
> 
>     Cheers
> 
>     Paolo Quadrani
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