On 01.01.2009, at 19:22, James Gray wrote: > You can just pull the central git repository down with git-svn > (which ships with git) and you get all the advantages of git locally. True, but I still think there is a barrier about "what is official". The alternative I can see is to have a Subversion mirror of git repository's long living branches. What about this? Still best of both worlds, but I am sure it will faster the experimentation Dave Thomas has been talking about at RubyConf 2008. MK