Migration of Bazaar to Git

Description

This is just a proposal!

The idea is that the development and improvement of bazaar is not reliable anymore. See for this:

• https://www.stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospective.html
• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2012q4/075390.html
• Even Launchpad are now offering git repositories as well: https://help.launchpad.net/Code/Git

In 2009, we actually initially used Git for hosting the source code of OpenPetra! We still have some documentation for that in the wiki:

• How to work with git on the command line

TODO

• Costs of hosting a private repository of git on Launchpad, github and on other available git hosting platforms need to be looked at.
• Investigate how Launchpad Git repositories work. Investigate if Github, other git hosting platforsm or own hosted gitlab is more suitable.
  • see Investigation of Launchpad Git Repositories
  • investigate the varying features these hosting platforms have to offer
• Integrate git in VisualStudio and SharpDevelop
• Document conversion from bzr to git and keeping the history. see http://www.pokorra.de/2013/10/mirror-a-bazaar-repository-from-launchpad-to-github/
• Jenkins: use git instead of bzr
• nant: changes to import translations
• nant: changes to use current bzr version number in the petra client
• Time estimation for switch over
• document benefits of a switch over

Document usage of git on these pages:

• How to work with git on the command line
• How to work with git through the GUI on Windows

useful git commands

# do not pull the whole history, but just the latest commit. save download bandwidth
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openpetra/openpetra.git myopenpetradirectory