On 18 October 2007 07:13, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. Currently, ...
>> It seems like GIT is where the mindshare is these days, plus a number of
>> the other autotools projects have already migrated (or
Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. Currently,
...
> 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
> -Original Message-
> From: make-w32-bounces On Behalf Of Paul Smith
> Sent: maandag 15 oktober 2007 23:11
> To: Howard Chu
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:36 -0700, Howar
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:11:19PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:36 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
>> IMO the objections to requiring MSYS/Cygwin on Windows made no sense
>> in this discussion. "Make" is inherently a POSIX command line tool.
>> Anybody using it on Windows needs a POS
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:36:53 -0700
> From: Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> IMO the objections to requiring MSYS/Cygwin on Windows made no sense in this
> discussion.
Believe me, it does make sense to some. In a nutshell, if you use
Cygwin or MSY
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 13:36 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> IMO the objections to requiring MSYS/Cygwin on Windows made no sense
> in this discussion. "Make" is inherently a POSIX command line tool.
> Anybody using it on Windows needs a POSIX environment already anyway.
That is definitely not true. T
Paul Smith wrote:
It looks like this discussion may have been premature, perhaps by as
little as a few weeks or so, based on the fact that Savannah has
Subversion support in beta right now and that there seems to be a lot of
action around GIT support on Windows that is being published either now
It looks like this discussion may have been premature, perhaps by as
little as a few weeks or so, based on the fact that Savannah has
Subversion support in beta right now and that there seems to be a lot of
action around GIT support on Windows that is being published either now
or very shortly.
So
On Oct 14, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-make@gnu.org
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:57:20 -0400
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 21:10 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Can you tell why?
The main reasons are lack of functionality in CVS re
> From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-make@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:57:20 -0400
>
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 21:10 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Can you tell why?
>
> The main reasons are lack of functionality in CVS re renaming, removing,
> and reorganizin
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 10:22:56PM +0200, Ram??n Garc??a wrote:
>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: ea
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 21:10 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Can you tell why?
The main reasons are lack of functionality in CVS re renaming, removing,
and reorganizing files. However, it's not a critical issue; I've lived
with it for this long. The other problems CVS has (poor branch/merge,
no ato
On 2007-10-13 16:37Z, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> 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.
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:10:48PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?
Paul already wrote:
"I would like some more advance
> 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
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
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
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
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
> 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
> 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
> 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?
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> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:59:43 -0400
> From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc:
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> Isn't there a pure MinGW (not msys) version too?
If someone knows where to get it, please tell.
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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
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
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