On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:11 AM, "Stefan C. Müller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I just joined this list a few days ago. And haven't contributed a single > codeline to flightgear (yet). So its not my place to say what I'd like > best. But I'm possibly kind of the avarage maybe-contributor with svn > and cvs experience (later I have nightmares about), who has never heard > of git before and uses windows. I just want to share my first > impressions with msysGit, and the results of my binary-handing tests. > > * Installation was trivial. > * Using the console commands works perfectly and there is lots of > tutorials and manuals for those around. > * The GUI is a bit odd. But using the graphical branch plot works and is > simple to use. > * It's not comparable with tortoise when it comes to usability, but it > gets the job done with acceptable effort. > * The speed is ok (tested with the data part of flightgear). > * msysGit converts LF/CRLF by default with is very convenient. > > I did some tests regarding the handling of binary files. GIT seems to be > fully able to handle binary files. What you put into a repository you > get out identic (checked with md5). There is however a catch. If msysGit > converts LF->CRLF on checkout and CRLF->LF on checkin. It does this on > files its heuristic regards as textfiles. If this heuristic fails, its > possible that binaries get corrupted. The good news is that the > heuristic seems working well. It did not classify a single file in > fgdata wrong. The conversion can be disabled completely. Also its > possible to manually define text/binary on a per file basis, should the > heuristic ever fail for a file. > > I must admit that I was sceptical first, beeing used to subversion for > years. But the desciptions (and torwalds talk) of distributed SCM make > me insterested in git. I really enjoyed the ease of branching and > merging despite the poor gui. This morning at work, using subversion > felt suddently much more clumsy, even with tortoise. > > For new developers looking at fg, it's important to see that there is no > CVS in use (I almost walked away when saw it on the page). If git or svn > is not that relevant. It took me 10 min to get git installed and start > downloading from a remote repository. But it took 2+ days to get it > compile (to be honest, it still doesn't). > > Stefan >
Thanks for that review. I'm still wary of the auto line term conversion and would probably favor disabling it. I'm more concerned about the 2 GB repo size limit listed in the "Known issues" in the release notes. I don't think that will work for FG. Am I correct in assuming that Git under CygWin does not have that limitation? Anyone here tried it? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
