Re: Moving to git?

Hi,

yes I used git for a while, here is a bit outdated kannel git repo:
http://dev.kannel.org/~amalysh/kannel.org.git/

Andreas: git is working fine on OSX, I also use OSX on daily basis (fink 
install git ;) )

For lazy users/developers: git-cvsserver (cvs emulation) and I think the 
same is true for svn.

SVN is OK but very bad in brach handling. Git is the way to go, if you 
ask me :)

P.S. and on windows you also able to use git (cygwin ;)).

Thanks,
Alex

Guillaume Cottenceau schrieb:
> Andreas Fink <afink 'at' list.fink.org> writes:
> 
>> On 18.06.2008, at 17:05, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>>
>>> Alexander Malysh <amalysh 'at' kannel.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> diff --git a/gw/smscconn.c b/gw/smscconn.c
>>>> index 21e824d..6654665 100644
>>> Does that mean Alex has some git experience and could positively
>>> examine a request to migrating to git? Kannel still uses CVS, and
>>> it would probably make developers and contributors life easier to
>>> use a more powerful VCS.
>> Some platforms dont have GIT (like mine).
> 
> Is it not unreosonably old? Can you provide details?
> 
> A platform on which no kernel, xorg, wine or ruby on rails
> hacking is not possible seems to me a little outdated..?
> 
> Sometimes, tools a couple of years old may be chosen over very
> old tools, even if outdated platforms may need to specifically
> install the new tool :)
> 
>> CVS is old I must admit. My favour would be SVN though.
>> Things like non deletable directories are really stone age...
>>
>>> Hosting the git repo on the fedora box behind kannel.org should
>>> be pretty easy; there is a lot of documentation out there,
>>> including that one from me if needed (though it's normally aimed
>>> at "shared servers").
>> The hosting server are not the problem. Users are.
>> Have you seen GIT for Windows for example?
> 
> About Windows, kannel.org says:
> 
>   Kannel is mainly being developed on Linux systems, and should be
>   fairly easy to port to other Unix-like systems. However, we
>   don't yet support other platforms, due to lack of time.
> 
> So I think this is out of scope.
> 
>> or for Solaris 8 , HP/UX etc?
> 
> For the rest of the Unixes, I suspect compiling git for them
> would not be complicated, as git was written in C with a Unix
> bias in mind.
> 
>> cvs is there by default often where git is not.
> 
> Yes of course. But that argument should be used carefully,
> because sometimes better tools which are widely available would
> overally benefit to the project.
> 
> Also, when moving to git, there's still:
> 
> - gitweb allowing any web client to browse the repo
> 
> - and if you really want to be nice with oldies, you can use
>   "git-cvsserver" which is a CVS emulation layer for git (you can
>   access the git repo with cvs)
>