Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?

On 1/27/2011 12:52 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:

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At Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:05:46 +0700, Eric Niebler wrote:

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<idle speculation> Is it feasible to have both git and svn development going on simultaneously? Two-way synchronization from non-modularized svn boost to modularized git boost? Is that pure insanity?

Probably not *pure* insanity, but also perhaps not worth the trouble, IMO.

Still, doing a "big bang" conversion to Git all at one time is more than a notion.

Independent of modularization, ryppl, or anything else, is it time to start a discussion on the main list about moving to Git?

I hope such a discussion entails a very strong justification of why Git is better than Subversion. I still do not buy it, and only find Git more complicated and harder to use than Subversion with little advantage. I fear very much an "emperor's new clothes" situation where everyone is jumping on a bandwagon, because it is the latest thing to do, but no one is bothering to explain why this latest thing has any value to Boost.