On 28 May 2013 17:56, Christopher Kormanyos
I think the GIT team should make a decision NOW about whether GSOC students should use GIT or not.
I think I'm against this, on the grounds that there is a lot to go wrong, and much critical students Google-time, especially with those who may be even ranker amateurs than me ;-)
+1
I guess ultimately it's easy to move from a standalone git repo back to the svn sandbox. The advantage of git is having a nice public place like github available to make collaboration easy.
Unless there is a firm commitment from the GIT team to support students using GIT, then I think they should stick to boost-sandbox and do things "the old way".
Views from the GIT team? Paul
...Or their mentors!
I'm mentoring a project and I'm a total, absolute git-beginner (used it, like, only sporadically for one small repo).
You'd be surprised how quickly you pick it up. </aside>
Is there any way to send git newbies like me and my student to the sandbox, at least one more year?
Personally, I think whatever is easiest for the student in question is best. Getting the basics set up and out of the way asap is the goal and there's already a way to do that with svn (as I mentioned in the first post). Attached to this post is a really basic script that uses Stjepan's template_under_construction to give you a bare-bones git repo, if that's what you prefer. Cheers, Darren