FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git

The FreeBSD project has published their Q2'2020 status report that outlines their neat-complete work on migrating from Subversion to Git plus many hardware support improvements for this BSD operating system and more...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeBSD-Status-Q2-2020-Publish

[tildearrow]

I don't understand why do people still use Subversion...

[WizardGed]

The FreeBSD project has published their Q2'2020 status report that outlines their neat-complete work

Michael near-complete? also for shame tildearrow almost 3 hours and no correction ::shakes-head::

[gnulinux82]

I don't understand why do people still use Subversion...

Because they've been using it since before git existed and properly migrating a huge, decades-old SVN repository is a lot of work.

[elatllat]

L.O.L.

[DanL]

I don't understand why do people still use Subversion...

They just don't git it.

[Setif]

How much RAM did they need to migrate from svn to git?

[caligula]

I don't understand why do people still use Subversion...

Not everyone has a quad-socket ThreadRipper Pro to migrate the repository with reposurgeon.

[starshipeleven]

Not everyone has a quad-socket ThreadRipper Pro to migrate the repository with reposurgeon.

those are rookie numbers

[kpedersen]

I don't understand why do people still use Subversion...

For very small teams svnserve is fairly convenient. Being able to spin up a simple repo server is easier than sharing directories / keys over ssh or setting up a large gitlab instance.

Subversion also has a user management system by default, without needing ad-hoc hooks. For example in Git you can impersonate other users quite easily.
i.e https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...f-another-user

That said, I am fairly sure a "gitserve" would not be too hard to implement if enough people valued these features. It seems there isn't enough demand.