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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] git anyone?
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre.php@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 5:47 PM
> To: PHP internals
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] git anyone?
>=20
> hi,
>=20
> We have moved not too long ago and for what I see it gave some opportunit=
ies
> to many of us to see what are the other tools on the market, git and gith=
ub in
> particular. I think 99% of the active developers here are on github or us=
e git in
> one way or another.
>=20
> I think git could be a great help, maintaining multiple branches will be =
easier. It
> will also be very useful to develop new complex features requiring a long=
er
> development period. SVN works fine but merging is very limited and buggy,
> maintaining a branch while syncing changes from trunk/other branches is a
> very frustrating experiences.
>=20
> Please not I'm not requesting to do it now and here, only trying to get a
> feeling/poll about git usage.

I personally doubt moving will have a material positive impact on the proje=
ct. I wouldn't particularly mind if all the issues were addressed but I wou=
ldn't hold my breath that it will be game changing. It may be better to inv=
est the effort elsewhere.

Andi
=20