2009/7/11 Graham Percival <[email protected]>: > I've bitterly cursed the move to git ever since it happened. :( > > I don't mind asking contributors to learn a bit of texinfo, since > 95% of the time, they don't need to actually use any texinfo > commands; they can just edit the text in the file. And, as > Jonathan pointed out, the most important thing is the plain text; > some people (like him) are willing to add any special texinfo > formatting required. > > During GDP, I didn't require people to use git; I provided them > with texinfo source files. They edited the files (again, mostly > just the text, while ignoring the special commands), then I took > care of the git side. It wasn't _too_ much work, although I > wouldn't want to be doing it on a regular basis. But if there was > a limited-time X-month project, I might do it again. > > > Trevor Daniels might have an interesting opinion on this; he's > another retired British windows user, who started off during GDP > (and has said on multiple occasions that he would have never > started contributing if he had to use git). Now he's on git (he > wrote the "git on windows" section.
When I started translating, John and you made me to learn git, it was a requisite IIRC, now I can use git progressively a bit better, and I use it for my own private projects. I recommend it to all contributors; for the project it's something like those fidelity cards on the supermarkets: once you get stuck, it's difficult to move away. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
