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The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-903299136-1380244250=:30753 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Peter M=FCnster wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26 2013, Mica Semrick wrote: > >> @Peter github makes collaboration quite painless. Users can manage their= own >> accounts. > > I like git because of its features. And when I don't need those > features, I prefer svn because of its simplicity. Where is the pain? The last time I tried, merging multiple version in svn is a huge pain. One= =20 of the advantages of DVCS is that branching and merging are easy. > What would be the benefit when moving to github? Github seems to be the most popular DVCS hosting site at the moment. For=20 manuals, I think that Github is particularly useful because you can click= =20 on edit and make the change. Github automatically creates a fork, a new=20 branch, and pull request for you. So the technical barrier to=20 participation is low. > -1 (not worth the trouble for me) > > (On the other hand, if you sent me some bitcoins, I would be glad to > copy contextman to github. ;) https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git Using this is usually as simple as svn2git http://svn.example.com/path/to/repo Aditya --8323328-903299136-1380244250=:30753 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ --8323328-903299136-1380244250=:30753--