Switching the version control system from Subversion to Git.

Justin Deoliveira

2.2

Under Discussion, In Progress, Completed, Rejected, Deferred

Primary motivators for moving to git are:

• Most active developers already use git for local development, svn has become just a file server
• A recent poll showed majority of developers/users would favore a switch to git
• Git has emerged as a pretty clear frontrunner in terms of version control systems
• GeoTools has already switched
• Github is awesome!

The list goes on. Essentially exactly the same motivation for the GeoTools switch .

Making the switch boils down to the following tasks.

First cut done.

• https://github.com/jdeolive/geoserver/blob/gitdoc/doc/en/developer/source/source.rst
• https://github.com/jdeolive/geoserver/blob/gitdoc/doc/en/developer/source/tools.rst
• https://github.com/jdeolive/geoserver/blob/gitdoc/doc/en/developer/source/policies/comitting.rst

Done. Been functioning for a while now.

https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/

In progress.

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/HAUS-2239

Done.

To be done.

State here any backwards compatibility issues.

Andrea Aime: +1 Alessio Fabiani: +1 Ben Caradoc Davies: +1 Gabriel Roldan: +1 Justin Deoliveira: +1 Jody Garnett: +1 Mark Leslie: Rob Atkinson: Simone Giannecchini: +1

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