Hi Smu, > Any news / updates / thoughts about changing Harbour's SCM over to git? It > would make pulling new changes quite easy, instead of downloading the nightly > build .zip all the time. Perhaps others would agree. I am not much of an > SVN expert... and maybe synching is easy too... but I know a bit better, fwiw.
I started to experiment with GIT, but I just had too many small showstoppers (or at least show "slowers") to reach any meaningful results. I had codepage problems, CRLF conversion problems, missing support for any sort of meaningful $Id$ support, and while I understand the reasons for me it's a huge loss to do away with lack of revision numbers. The Windows client situation is also confusing, the Cygwin based client being the only one reported to work right. Also it may concerns some, that the whole checkout size is _1GB_. I used to keep around several SVN copies, so even this has a bad impact. (even though I know such checkout contains all past revisions) At this point I'm not sure if there is enough benefit for Harbour development process, to justify all these losses. For those users who want to start experimenting with GIT in context of Harbour, or even for those who want to use GIT as the gateway to access Harbour SVN repo, it can easily be done using this command: git svn clone -s https://harbour-project.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/harbour-project harbour (sorry I pulled this command from my bash history, and it's possible the exact URL needs tweaking) Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
