Hey! Woah! git conversion!!

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Thu May 23 21:58:24 CEST 2019


Am 21.05.19 um 19:22 schrieb Steffen Nurpmeso:
> Hello Matthias!
>
> In the process of looking around at Sourceforge because of my
> upcoming bogofilter port for CRUX-Linux (there is none yet; and
> with LMDB and therefore: can i somehow download an official
> tarball via Sourceforge/SVN) i have seen that just recently, what
> a coincidence, you have converted the repo to git and have also
> created a gitlab project, from which i seem to know that balls
> will be no problem!

Yeah, but tarballs were not the reason for the conversion. Disconnected
use, full-content clones, author attributions, signed tags, better
branching/merging support, easier forking with pull/merge requests and
thereabouts.

> Thanks that you have found time for doing the conversion, this
> really is great news for me and my use case(s).

It was, in fact, long overdue...

> P.S.: I am confident that this message will not reach the list
> and instead be classified as spam.  Yay.

Huh? Why would it?


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