There have been several requests about hosting Gtk+ (and GLib) as a Git repository recently and since that topic has come up more and more often, I meant to write about this for quite some time.

Let’s first take a look at the actual motivation for such a move. There are a good number of advantages we would get out of using Git as a source code repository for Gtk+ and GLib:

A quick poll on IRC has shown that all affected core maintainers are pretty much favoring Git over SVN as a source code repository for GLib/Gtk+.

However, here are the points to be considered for not moving the repositories to Git (just yet):

The bottom line is, there’s a good number of advantages that Git already can (or could) provide for our development even without migrating the repositories to Git right away. When exactly will be a good point for migrating GLib/Gtk+ and possibly other GNOME modules might not be an easy call, but right now is definitely too early.

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