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by Bharat Mediratta :: Rate this Message:

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Andy Staudacher wrote:
>     2) I will "svn rm" everything in our gallery3/trunk directory and
>     replace it with a file titled "GALLERY3_HAS_MOVED_TO_GIT" explaining
>     that we're moving to git and providing instructions on getting the
>     latest code.
>
> That's radical, and I think we can do it. If Gallery 3 wasn't at this
> early stage, we couldn't do it. Too many SVN users who svn up their prod
> site would be *%&* off.
> But with G3 in alpha stage, I think we can do that.

Yup, no better time than now for this.

>     3) I'll update this wiki page to indicate that we're moving to Git:
>       http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Using_Subversion
>
>     4) I'll update the quick start page with the download link from GitHub:
>       http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Quick_Start
>
>     5) I'll create a wiki page with a primer on using Git for Gallery 3.
>       http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery:Using_Git
>
>     What else?  Is this worthy of a news story?  Maybe.  Does anybody want
>     to write one?
>
> The release checklist will have to be updated. It's somewhat SVN heavy
> right now (export, tagging).
> Also, we have docs for vendor branch updates, integrations from vendor
> branches.

I have already made up (and temporarily committed) instructions for
dealing with the kohana package in the vendor branch.  This will serve
as a pattern for the vendor branch.

I've created the gallery3-packaging repo and it will be easy for us to
update the instructions there when we release beta 1.

> I'll start playing with git today as well.

Let me know your username and I'll add you as a collaborator on the
varions repos.

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