Proposal for moving WebKit development to Git

Benefits of moving to Git

• A large number of WebKit devs are already using git-svn
• All major organizations involved with WebKit development have significant sub-sets of devs already using git-svn
• Would make code review easier
• Would allow us to do away with manually editing/resolving ChangeLog files
  • git diff already includes ChangeLog entry
  • bugzilla could be modified to point to a private branch for code review
  • no more pastebin, just a simple git push
• Distributed nature of git allows to commit even when server goes down
• Branching is cheap with git which would encourage the practice of developing unstable features in smaller chunks
• WebKitTools/Scripts already contains lots of git coverage
• We have a significant amount of git knowledge amongst various WebKit devs for training the remaining devs
• GitHub for WebKit would be cool :)
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Costs of moving to Git

• Git is still very slow and flaky under windows
• The majority of WebKit devs are used to using svn and would need to learn this new tool
• Git itself can be hard to learn and hard to use
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Problems to be solved

• Bugzilla integration
• Workflow would need to be worked out
• An option for contributing for those who are unwilling/unable to learn git?
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TODO

• Find out just how many git users we have who actively contribute to WebKit
• Find out how many svn users we have and there feelings on moving to git
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