[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] Starting on Sunday: GRASS GIS Community Sprint - OSGeo Sprint 2018

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> We have a lot of interesting topics on the agenda ... source code
>> management
>
>
> Markus,
>
>   Perhaps you developers would discuss moving the repository from subversion
> to git. Git has excellent multi-user support which is better than subversion
> or mercurial from the research I did before switching my use to git.

Yes, as you see that discussion is on the agenda :)

To be considered: all branches back to GRASS GIS 5 have to be ported.
And other projects struggled with that quite a bit (AFAIK also a
reason that GDAL is on SVN yet).
Anyway, to be discussed in a separate thread.

Markus