Last modified: 2012-10-04 20:17:51 UTC
This is just to track the update.
Resolving "later" since we are not planning to do this any time soon.
*** Bug 24213 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A good primer for the Subversion adherents is "Subversion Re-education" from Joel Spolsky: http://hginit.com/00.html Don't pay any attention to the fact that it's talking about Mercurial and is pimping his Mercurial-based product. The same DVCS virtues he extols apply to Git or Bazaar or probably even Darcs. Now, as to *which* DVCS to switch to, here's a pretty persuasive case for Git: http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/05/why-i-switched-to-git-from-mercurial.html (...and I say this as someone who has been using Mercurial for the past couple of years)
*** Bug 27811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is being tracked here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git_conversion
Update: the migration is happening on Wednesday, March 21st.
Closing blocking bug. This is done, we have a component, and we're not really following this tracking bug anymore.