Hi, On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:45:22AM +0100, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > > > Graham Percival wrote Monday, August 10, 2009 12:48 AM > >> I maoing hate git. > > > > Git is fine; the complexity comes from the > > baroque structures in LilyPond. Let's be > > thankful Git has tools to cope :) > > Oh? Didn't you comment that if you had to use git at the > beginning, you wouldn't have ever started contributing? Remember > Tim's first reaction when he saw the instructions for starting to > help the website -- "criminity on a crutch": > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2009-07/msg00288.html > > We've lost 50% of potential contributors to the website because of > git. Now, it's an open question whether those potentials were > actually serious or not. However, I know that it took one serious > contributor almost a week to reach the state of being able to send > me good updates. Even disregarding the offers of help that dried > up when git was mentioned, I do *not* think that spending a week > fighting git is very motivating. Fair enough. Maybe it is time to suggest an easy interface to Git? You could even write a very simple wrapper around Git that _just_ downloads the current version of LilyPond, allows the user to edit the files and then click another button to send the patch. For Windows, it would be even easier: I could make a custom version of the Git installer just for you, which comes with a Tcl/Tk interface (or uses Git GUI right away). Ciao, Dscho _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
