Move part of macports infrastructure to GitHub

[Sean Farley]

Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> writes:

> On Mar 16, 2014, at 13:27, Ivan Larionov wrote:
>
>> I want to start this discussion mainly about ports tree, but actually base and some other stuff could use github and infra around it as well. I understand this is not so easy and may be you already discussed it and may be already decided not to do, but there are huge pros:
>> 
>> * git >> svn
>
> For you, moving from svn to git may be a pro; for me, it would initially be a con. I have a decade of experience with Subversion and a very good understanding of how it works and behaves, and only an extremely spotty understanding of git. It makes me uncomfortable every time I use it. That could be cured by spending some hours with a fine manual, but it would be something new to need to learn. Although I understand github does offer svn access to its git repositories, so it’s possible those like me who would prefer not to be forced to switch to git wouldn’t have to.

Coming from years of supporting projects moving from Subversion to git /
Mercurial, it has been my experience that Mercurial has a much more sane
user interface and doesn't force the user to grok the internals as I've
found git does.