eZ running on Git

EDIT : eZ Publish Community Project's git repository can now be found here : http://github.com/ezsystems/ezpublish

Big news today, concerning all of us keeping an eye on eZ Publish's code frequently : eZ is migrating to Git!

The adventure

The code currently available at http://pubsvn.ez.no/nextgen/ will soon be hosted on http://github.com.

The main reasons are as follows:

• Git is a distributed VCS which means people can commit disconnected (e.g. while at a customer site, or working on the train) and you can commit more frequently (e.g. partially-working code which you commit locally but don't push upstream until it really works).
• Git makes branching cheap. Creating branches for new features and then merging at the end is a useful and sensible practice which SVN makes difficult but Git makes much easier.
• GitHub capitalizes on the previous point by openly inviting people to fork. We hope this will encourage more community contribution as community members will be able to fork and commit code to a public repository without us having to grant access to ours.

Practically for you guys, there are thousands of articles discussing and contrasting the two as well as tips about using Git for SVN users so Google is your friend :)
A few pointers however :

• Git - SVN Crash Course http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html
• The Pro Git book: http://progit.org/book/
• The Git Community Book: http://book.git-scm.com/
• The official git man pages online at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/ and of course available using man.

Schedule

Here is the tentative schedule for this migration :

As you can note, we are one week away from the actual migration to Git. Feel free, during this time, to post your feedback, tips & tricks on such an adventure as comments under this post.

Cheers !

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