We’ve been preparing for Rails to move the official source repository from Subversion to Git for some time now and it seems that it’ll happen over the next week or so. The premiere will happen alongside the official launch of Github.

The move will also mean that we’re going to be switching ticket tracking to Lighthouse. So now both our repository and ticket tracking will be powered by Rails applications, which is a nice bonus treat.

When the move happens, we’ll freeze the existing Subversion repository and the Trac installation. Both will live on for a long time to come, but will be entirely deprecated. This means that your existing svn:externals will not break, but if you want the latest edge, you’ll have to get it from the new git repository.

So now is a great time to learn more about Git in anticipation of this move. I recommend starting with the Git for SVN’ers crash course.