Re: [Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-09 Thread Bryant Eastham
Ulf Lamping wrote: AFAIK, moving to git would be a big hurdle for Windows developers. Related to this, before considering such a change you could isolate as many of these Windows (and other) developers as possible: provide a plugin SDK (as part of the install, I would propose, or as a separate

Re: [Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-08 Thread Guy Harris
On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:08 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote: this is just something that went through my mind yesterday while working on the third patch on the same files and without a chance to commit between the patches. If there is one thing that I don't like (although I do it sometimes) is to do a

Re: [Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-08 Thread Sébastien Tandel
Hi Guy, The way I work is that I have multiple working trees for various projects, with modified versions of various source files. different working trees with svn is synonym of having several repositories on the local FS. With git, you can create local branches which could represent your

Re: [Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-08 Thread ronnie sahlberg
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:08 AM, Joerg Mayer wrote: this is just something that went through my mind yesterday while working on the third patch on the same files and without a chance to commit between the patches. If there is

[Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-07 Thread Joerg Mayer
Hello, this is just something that went through my mind yesterday while working on the third patch on the same files and without a chance to commit between the patches. If there is one thing that I don't like (although I do it sometimes) is to do a commit that does several things at once. With

Re: [Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-07 Thread Ulf Lamping
Joerg Mayer schrieb: Hello, this is just something that went through my mind yesterday while working on the third patch on the same files and without a chance to commit between the patches. If there is one thing that I don't like (although I do it sometimes) is to do a commit that does

Re: [Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-07 Thread Sébastien Tandel
Hello, I had already made the proposal to Gerald some time ago and I'm really ok with this proposal. I started using git three years ago and even if the underlying concepts are slightly different from cvs/svn, once we're used to it, it is not possible to go back to cvs/svn. I've introduced it

Re: [Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-07 Thread Jaap Keuter
Joerg Mayer wrote: Hello, this is just something that went through my mind yesterday while working on the third patch on the same files and without a chance to commit between the patches. If there is one thing that I don't like (although I do it sometimes) is to do a commit that does

Re: [Wireshark-dev] How about moving from svn to git?

2009-11-07 Thread Balint Reczey
Joerg Mayer wrote: Hello, this is just something that went through my mind yesterday while working on the third patch on the same files and without a chance to commit between the patches. If there is one thing that I don't like (although I do it sometimes) is to do a commit that does