On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 5:41 PM Maxim Kuvyrkov
<maxim.kuvyr...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > On May 16, 2019, at 7:22 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/15/19 5:19 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> >>
> >> For the official converted repo do we really want all (old)
> >> development branches to be in the
> >> main git repo?  I suppose we could create a readonly git from the
> >> state of the whole repository
> >> at the point of conversion (and also keep the SVN in readonly mode),
> >> just to make migration
> >> of content we want easy in the future?
> > I've always assumed we'd keep the old SVN tree read-only for historical
> > purposes.  I strongly suspect that, ignoring release branches, that
> > non-active branches just aren't terribly interesting.
>
> Let's avoid mixing the two discussions: (1) converting svn repo to git (and 
> getting community consensus to switch to git) and (2) deciding on which 
> branches to keep in the new repo.
>

I'm hoping that there is still community consensus to switch to git.

Personally speaking, a +1 to switch to git.

regards
Ramana

> With git, we can always split away unneeded history by removing unnecessary 
> branches and tags and re-packing the repo.  We can equally easily bring that 
> history back if we change our minds.
>
> --
> Maxim Kuvyrkov
> www.linaro.org
>

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