# Ruby trunk **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 12, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-trunk/177185 "2009-10-12T23:00:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonas_s)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-trunk/177185/1 "2009-10-12T23:00:39Z")
Hey guys, I have a question: why is the official ruby repo still on SVN and not on Git? I think git provides much better collaborative options. What about just putting on GitHub so everyone can fork from there etc., and git has proven better in about everything ruby-related, so why not Ruby itself? Greets ---
**Author:** ![jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonas_s)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-trunk/177185/2 "2009-10-12T23:12:22Z")
> **[GitHub - shyouhei/ruby: UNOFFICIAL: please use http://github.com/ruby/ruby...](https://github.com/shyouhei/ruby)** > > UNOFFICIAL: please use http://github.com/ruby/ruby instead. - GitHub - shyouhei/ruby: UNOFFICIAL: please use http://github.com/ruby/ruby instead. I think that pretty much says it all. ---
**Author:** ![jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonas_s)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-trunk/177185/3 "2009-10-13T01:20:40Z")
Walton H. wrote: > [GitHub - shyouhei/ruby: UNOFFICIAL: please use http://github.com/ruby/ruby instead.](http://github.com/shyouhei/ruby) > > I think that pretty much says it all. [http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby](http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby) Is another good one. -r ---
**Author:** ![jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonas_s)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-trunk/177185/4 "2009-10-13T02:09:46Z")
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Roger P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Walton H. wrote: > > > [GitHub - shyouhei/ruby: UNOFFICIAL: please use http://github.com/ruby/ruby instead.](http://github.com/shyouhei/ruby) > > > > I think that pretty much says it all. > > [http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby](http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby) Don’t use RubySpec’s mirror if you’re planning on submitting patches back to trunk. Shyouhei is a committer, and will actually respond to (or at least consider) pull requests. ~ j. ---
**Author:** ![jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dfb087/32.png) [@jonas\_s](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jonas_s)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-trunk/177185/5 "2009-10-13T00:54:49Z")
On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Jonas S. wrote: > Hey guys, > > I have a question: why is the official ruby repo still on SVN and not > on Git? > I think git provides much better collaborative options. What about > just putting on GitHub so everyone can fork from there etc., and git > has proven better in about everything ruby-related, so why not Ruby > itself? There was a very long discussion about this over on the ruby-core mailing list not too long ago ([http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/25290](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/25290) ). Essentially, the decision not to move was made because: – core team is busy fixing issues and doesn’t need the cognitive load of learning a new VCS – certain Subversion specific tools used by the core team would need to be rewritten – enough of the core team is still on Windows and git support on Windows is still shaky enough that these members don’t feel comfortable with the move – While Git has advantages over Subversion (distributed, easy branching), they aren’t great enough to overcome the above hurdles. – The git-svn bridge has progressed significantly enough to make it mostly irrelevant whether the “true” central repository is Git or Subversion. – The git mirror at [GitHub - shyouhei/ruby: UNOFFICIAL: please use http://github.com/ruby/ruby instead.](http://github.com/shyouhei/ruby) is sufficient (try it, you’ll like it!) – As described at [http://wiki.github.com/shyouhei/ruby/noncommitterhowto](http://wiki.github.com/shyouhei/ruby/noncommitterhowto) , it really doesn’t matter anyway if you’re not a committer, because you’d have to get any patches approved and submitted by a committer regardless. Whether that’s a git-pull request or a git-format-patch e- mail shouldn’t really matter. Finally, as much as I like the easy forking that git and GitHub allow, perhaps try looking at the numerous Ruby forks that already exist (some of which _do_ use git as their central repository) and maybe contribute to one of them instead of making your own fork: Rubinius: [http://github.com/evanphx/rubinius](http://github.com/evanphx/rubinius) JRuby: [GitHub - jruby/jruby: JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM](http://github.com/jruby/jruby) MacRuby: [http://www.macruby.org/source.html](http://www.macruby.org/source.html) IronRuby: [http://www.ironruby.net/](http://www.ironruby.net/) Cheers, Josh