Inspired by what ESR has to say regarding migration from SVN to the Git version control system in practice, I decided to start “considering” actual options for abandoning that unsafe, annoying and apparently not very scalable centralized version control system known as SVN in one of the only remaining projects where SVN is still used and I'm involved as a developer. In this case, I'm the founder of this project, good old Wesnoth-UMC-Dev.

More specifically, I've decided to take a realistic look at the options as they present themselves — and since Git is a hot topic on both the mainline Wesnoth Project and Wesnoth-UMC-Dev, exploring our possibilities with it sounds like a good way to begin yet another “mayhem” series in this blog (oh boy, I need to categorize those).

Note that I'd normally have posted this in the wesnoth-umc-dev blog if it still existed — it wasn't being used by anyone and the information it contained has been moved and expanded upon in other web pages of our site. Blame AI0867 for that.