Marcel Siegert schrieb: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: >> Marcel Siegert schrieb: >>> On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: >>>> Marcel Siegert schrieb: >>>>> On Tuesday 06 March 2007, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> someone here with some tips for moving to git? >>>>>> >>>>>> Otherwise, I'll just do the usual apt-get + RTFM. >>>>>> >>>>> hi denis, >>>>> >>>>> what do you want to move to git? >>>>> directfb and its modules, coprojects? >>>> Yes, all of them. >>>> >>> args, >>> >>> why are you planning to do so? >>> >>> swimming with the hype? >>> >>> or is cvs too unuseable? >>> >>> if that is the point, i would recommend subversion. >> cvs == svn >> >> I like distributed repositories. At the moment I'm having >> different CVS repositories for different projects, each >> having its own DirectFB module. Merging between them is >> always done manually with cvs diff and patch etc. >> >> How would svn solve that? >> > > cvs!=svn
:) > svn has advantages e.g. like moving files & history.... What else? > i dont like them, haven't worked that much with git but > i do know mercurial and that one sucks. > also for a developer imho it is not to known all commands > and different workflows of all those scm's. At least git is used for the kernel, so it's not just another scm that you have to know about :) > svn is nearly the same syntax as cvs, so also user could step > over without any rejections, just taking the advantages. > > on linuxtv.org each modification (to prevent too much conflicts) > should be in a seperate repository. It doesn't have to be like that. One main, plus optional repositories, e.g. the new wm branch could be its own. > so you have to have one repo e.g. where you develop new things, > one for clean to pull from, and > if like you have, loads of repos must be pulled, merged, ect. > imho that is much more work. As the number of repositories I'm going to manage won't grow with that move it could only become simpler. > why do you have the need of those different distributed repos? > (c)opyrighted maybe nda stuff? No, it's for easier management. It's even to make flowing back to the mainline faster! :) -- Best regards, Denis Oliver Kropp .------------------------------------------. | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | | http://www.directfb.org/ | "------------------------------------------" _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
