[openib-general] switch from svn to git

[Bob Woodruff]

Roland wrote, 
>I think this may be due to a fundamental problem with how you've
>chosen to manage the process.  I think it would be less work both for
>you and also the component maintainers if we made like Gnome and just
>said, "OK maintainers, tarballs for RC5 are due on such-and-such
>date."  Then we avoid paying the extra cost of marching in lockstep on
>a single branch in a single repository.

> - R.

This approach assumes that no one wants to follow the latest version (tip) 
of the tree and that people only care about specific releases or RCs,
which is not the case. 

woody