[FFmpeg-soc] [rfc] using git for the new students

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:02AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Beside the concerns from mike and possibly others (I'll guide you 
> through the git documentation pointing the nice one and/or giving you 
> answers), I'd like to use git to manage our students this year.
> 
> Pros:
> - sane branch : mentors won't have to track by diff and new files like 
> the last year, you can get your branch from the main git repo and pull 
> changes from the student repo.
> - good merge support : getting the whole history back (even cleaned up 
> if necessary) will be way simpler thanks git-svn.
> 

> Cons:
> - mentors have to learn git.

and students have to as well ...

So IMHO if any student (and their mentor) want to use git instead of svn
thats fine.


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