LLVM Looks At Moving From SVN To Git Via GitHub

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LLVM Looks At Moving From SVN To Git Via GitHub

While there have been Git mirrors available of LLVM and its sub-projects (including Clang) for some time, this open-source compiler infrastructure project has relied upon SVN as its cental development repository. The LLVM project is now looking at finally transitioning to Git for development and quite likely utilizing GitHub for hosting...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LLVM-SVN-Looks-To-Git

[FireBurn]

About bloody time too

[Alliancemd]

Ye, Github is The Best platform for any open-source project to gain visibility and to ease in more contributions(it's so damn simple on Github).
Plus you have all the plethora of tools.

[jaxxed]

Pretty sure that LLVM aren't looking for visibility, just easier management.

[microcode]

Git is excellent, after this goes through I just need to see OpenBSD on Git and my life will be simple. I honestly don't see how people make use of subversion and other CVS-style SCMs. They make it difficult to iteratively build and share revision history, take snapshots, and other useful things. Git excels at these activities and more.

[DrYak]

Also Git is decentralized.
So - if they don't like github that much - nothing prevents them from using (e.g.: a self-hosted) gitlab for the main development, and then pushing/pulling to a secondary github repo for added exposure and increased "drive by" contributions.