Tomas Hajny
Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:58:35 -0700
On Wed, April 8, 2009 12:33, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@mbox.vol.cz> wrote: . . >> I wouldn't be able to contribute any longer, because no (usable) Git >> client for OS/2 / eCS exists at the moment as far as I know. > > Ignoring the fact that some exotic platforms like OS/2 doesn't have > git support (has anybody actually tried to compile git under OS/2
Apparently yes (I found a reference about on some site in Japan - a lot of Japanese characters, but the important bits were fortunately available in English), but the result is next to useless for a general OS/2 user (i.e. user not running /bin/sh as his primary command line environment). Note that there is a big difference between "having full source codes in language X which may be compilable under certain platform with certain effort and certain version of a compiler for language X" and "having a working binary for the particular platform". BTW, the point I tried to make was that fewer platforms were supported, not that OS/2 was not supported. > yet?), learning a new version control system is not that hard. I found > CVS more confusing than Git. And from a developer point of view, you > only need about 5 commands to do most day-to-day work using git. Well, you do not need to convince me (I simply cannot use it right now anyway for reasons discussed above ;-) ). I'm not questioning the fact how easy it is or not to learn using git and I'm sure there is plenty of other (perfectly valid!) reasons why someone should choose exactly this SCM tool. I do not want to dispute on general Git usefulness nor to provide general comparison to other SCM tools. Ido asked a general question and I tried to provide one particular view which may be overlooked by users of the more "mainstream" platforms. > Oh Tomas, I only remembered now. There is a native port of Git in the > Java language. > It's called 'Java Git' and can be found at: http://www.jgit.org/ > I have no idea how far they are, but if it supports up to Git v1.5 > features you are good to go on OS/2 or any other platform supporting > Java. :-) Please, don't want me to comment on my opinion of a command line tool written in Java and its possible usability... > Alternatively we can always implement a native Free Pascal Git, which > should solve this whole Git + FPC issues. ;-) Oh yes, that is certainly possible, looking forward to that. ;-) Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other