Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all; I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. Currently, Savannah supports (in addition to CVS) GNU arch and GIT. If SVN were supported I'd probably go for that, because (a) it has great support for alternative OSs like Windows, etc.; and (b) GNU make development is currentl

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Oct 13, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Paul Smith wrote: Hi all; I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. Currently, Savannah supports (in addition to CVS) GNU arch and GIT. [...] I don't really know what the current state-of-the-art is WRT GIT on non-POSIX systems, so... please give

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:37:46PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: >Hi all; > >I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. Currently, >Savannah supports (in addition to CVS) GNU arch and GIT. If SVN were >supported I'd probably go for that, because (a) it has great support for >alternativ

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:59:43 -0400 > From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > > Isn't there a pure MinGW (not msys) version too? If someone knows where to get it, please tell. ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.g

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:37:46 -0400 > Cc: > > I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. Can you tell why? ___ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:18:42 +0200 > Cc: Make Windows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bug-make > > I frequently read Git's ML and it seems rather stable on Cygwin. Which for me is a turn-off, because I don't want to install Cygwin. > The MSYS version should

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:52:58 +0200 > Cc: bug-make > > On Oct 13, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > Isn't there a pure MinGW (not msys) version too? > > > > This sounds unlikely because many commands in git-core are shell > script

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 10/13/07, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems like GIT is where the mindshare is these days, plus a number of > the other autotools projects have already migrated (or are in the middle > of migrating) to GIT, so that's what I'd go with. > please give me your opinions on this change

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Oct 13, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Isn't there a pure MinGW (not msys) version too? This sounds unlikely because many commands in git-core are shell scripts (or sometimes Perl scripts) written on top of plumbing commands. But with the librarification of Git, it will pr

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Benoit SIGOURE
On Oct 13, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: From: Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:18:42 +0200 Cc: Make Windows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bug-make I frequently read Git's ML and it seems rather stable on Cygwin. Which for me is a turn-off, because I don't want to

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Ramón García
In my opinion, distributed control version systems like GIT or Mercurial are the way to go in the long term. In Sun all the repositories are (or are being migrated to) Mercurial. There is only one serious limitation with GIT: each developer must have a complete repository, that is, it is not posib

Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

2007-10-13 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Cc: Make Windows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > bug-make > From: Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:09:56 +0200 > > > Is there a good native Windows port of GIT? > > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/WindowsInstall Thanks, I already found that page. However, it sounds like it onl