Git For Garage

Overview
The purpose of this page is to describe details of the "Git for garage" that is being started at the beginning of December, 2008.

Background
Garage have been a successful hosting environment for maemo projects since 2006. The tool that powers garage is GForge with some modifications done by the maemo team. Software projects coming to garage can only use one source code revision control system, that is subversion, aka svn. Ever since the Linux kernel is maintained by git we had been asked to offer git for garage projects as well. The time has finally came and we are now developing the changes.

The GForge team has developed a git plugin which provides the functionality we are trying to achieve, but their plugin is meant for the Advanced Server edition of GForge. GForge AS is not in line (both code- and license wise) with the open source version we have at garage. Therefore we decided to write a free plugin for garage, which could be used by on any GForge 4.5.20+ installations.