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[13:34:09 CST(-0600)] <Daskreech> recommending that
[13:35:38 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> so it is more up to your local preference. The uPortal community has more experiance with SVN vendor branches
[13:35:46 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> but there are a lot of places interested in using git
[13:36:05 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> so there will likely be a lot experiance with git in 6 months or so
[13:36:13 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> so you could do it now, you'd just be an early adopter 
[13:36:29 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> one of the things I'm working on this week is transcribing my notes on it from the conference
[13:36:30 CST(-0600)] <EricDalquist> https://wiki.jasig.org/display/UPC/Git+for+Vendor+Branching