Contributing to projects on GitHub with Subversion

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

1 hour ago, David Heffernan said:

Just so long as VS Code doesn't auto uninstall every fortnight like it does with me......

o.0 - I have it running on several machines, and haven't seen that trick yet.  Auto-upgrade, yes, but not auto uninstall.

[Anders Melander 1795]

3 minutes ago, Angus Robertson said:

You reach an age where you really don't want to learn new stuff.

And there's even a medical term for it: Rigor Mortis

No but seriously, I'm not that young myself, but once you start not learning new stuff your cognitive abilities will deteriorate: Use it or Lose it.

Your brain will create new neurons your whole life as long as you give it reason to. Luckily the brains plasticity means that a decline is reversible. Just give your brain some exercise.

[dummzeuch 1506]

23 minutes ago, Angus Robertson said:

You reach an age where you really don't want to learn new stuff.

Some of this new fangled stuff is just not worth the effort. Now get off my lawn! 😉

 

OK, I'm getting old. More and more grey hair and receding hairline are obvious telltales.

 

(My grandma was using the German expression "neumoderner Kram". Back then (in the 1960s) she was talking about the telephone with a dial. Having a private phone line was still something special in many areas of Germany in that time (so I heard). She never really learned the customary protocol for using it, that is, stating her name when calling. That was back then when phones didn't even display the caller's number, so you didn't know who was calling. Some kids nowadays are the same, they never learned it, because "nobody uses a phone for calls any more". And they are basically right: I rarely use my smart phone to make calls.)

[Angus Robertson 574]

21 minutes ago, Anders Melander said:

Just give your brain some exercise. 

Totally agree, I have no intention of vegatating in front of day time TV, which is why I still work on ICS.  At leat while Moorfields Hospital keeps my eyes working, victims of diabetes.  

 

Angus

[Anders Melander 1795]

49 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

I rarely use my smart phone to make calls.

How do you make calls then?

 

I still have a land line but I haven't had any phones connected to it for ages. I guess I should cancel my subscription one of theses days . On the other hand, you never know when it'll come in handy; Zombie apocalypse, Skynet becomes self-aware, Trumps second, third and fourth term...

[Fr0sT.Brutal 900]

1 hour ago, Anders Melander said:

Trumps second, third and fourth term...

It's a big surprise that Trump influences mobile network in EU 😄

[Anders Melander 1795]

5 minutes ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

It's a big surprise

After the last 4 years nothing about him surprises me much anymore

[Fr0sT.Brutal 900]

In every place, to get local one's 1-hour speech, just say "What the hell they did with this country..." 😄

[dummzeuch 1506]

2 hours ago, Anders Melander said:

How do you make calls then?

 

I still have a land line but I haven't had any phones connected to it for ages. I guess I should cancel my subscription one of theses days . On the other hand, you never know when it'll come in handy; Zombie apocalypse, Skynet becomes self-aware, Trumps second, third and fourth term...

Simple: I rarely make any calls at all. For those calls I still need to make, I prefer a SIP connection and a headset on my computer. My mobile phone contract even comes with an option to connect via SIP, but that is a remainder from old days, new contracts from that company do no longer offer this. And also, calls via SIP are not covered by the phone flat rate. So I have a different one paid for by my employer due to me working from home nowadays.

I also have a land line, but that's for internet connection only, no phone was ever connected to it.

Edited October 2, 2020 by dummzeuch

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3 hours ago, Anders Melander said:

You reach an age where you really don't want to learn new stuff.

Then this business is not the right one 🙂 I hope i still have the urge to (re)learn 20 years from now.

But since our government is playing hedge-funding-pups with out pensions i'll probably just die.

[Rollo62 538]

1 hour ago, Anders Melander said:

I still have a land line but I haven't had any phones connected to it for ages. I guess I should cancel my subscription one of theses days .

I have my land line connection for fast internet connection, TV, etc,
and the land line phone is a kind of free "by-product".

 

If I want that people don't call me, I give them my land line number

 

[dummzeuch 1506]

GitHub has announced (in January 2023, but I only just saw it) that they will remove Subversion support in January 2024.

[Fr0sT.Brutal 900]

On 4/28/2023 at 5:48 PM, dummzeuch said:

GitHub has announced (in January 2023, but I only just saw it) that they will remove Subversion support in January 2024.

SmartGit app removed the support as well (they have SVN-only app though).

I'm +1 for this, SVN is awkward piece of fossil to me

[dummzeuch 1506]

1 hour ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

SVN is awkward piece of fossil to me

 

That's ok with me. I don't like git or rather think it overly complicated for what I need. And I managed to trash my git repositories several times when I tried to get used to it a few years back.

 

Those projects that move / have moved to GitHub have their reasons. They'll just have to live with the fact that I'll not contribute to them. Most of them probably don't care, my contributions haven't been that great anyway.

[shineworld 73]

In the company, when we switched from SVN to GIT, it was hard, initially just using console commands.
Then we started using TortoiseGIT and a way opened up.
Everything runs smoothly.
Collaborative work got easier, like tracking changes, versions, etc.
At this point, I honestly don't regret SVN at all...

[Uwe Raabe 2059]

A couple of years ago I worked with a team moving from SVN to Git. They followed my advice to use Fork right from the beginning. We had two courses based on Fork to get some guide through the workflow. Both, the money spent for Fork as well as the courses was worth it. Since then SVN is history.

 

Fun fact: The trainer giving the courses switched his own team to Fork as well after that.

[Lars Fosdal 1792]

We also used SVN for nearly a decade before switching to Git. We do not have any regrets, but we are grateful for a lot of the new possibilities.

We chose GitKraken as GUI, but Fork was runner up. I can't remember what pulled us in direction of GitKraken. 

This "Git, Demystified" video from Delphicon 2023 is an awesome intro to Git.

[Stefan Glienke 2009]

1 hour ago, Lars Fosdal said:

We chose GitKraken as GUI, but Fork was runner up. I can't remember what pulled us in direction of GitKraken. 

When comparing the costs of GitKraken (4.95$/month/user) vs a one-time purchase of $49.99 I would say that either GitKraken is a rip-off or has some impressive feature set and offers way more than what a graphical git client has to offer.

[Cristian Peța 103]

3 hours ago, Lars Fosdal said:

We chose GitKraken as GUI, but Fork was runner up. I can't remember what pulled us in direction of GitKraken. 

I think your last statement here:

"We've spent today testing Fork and GitKraken and landed on GitKraken Pro due to the issue tracker integrations and built in GitFlow support - which really simplify doing proper branching for features, fixes and releases. "

Edited May 3, 2023 by Cristian Peța

[Remy Lebeau 1403]

9 hours ago, shineworld said:

Then we started using TortoiseGIT and a way opened up.

+1 for TortoiseGIT