On Jul 5, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Justin Haygood wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Maciej Stachowiak" <m...@apple.com>
To: "Benjamin Meyer" <b...@meyerhome.net>
Cc: "WebKit Development" <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Git Familiarity (was ChangeLog)
I think at some point we need to consider a change in version
control system. I would like us to work on the bug tracker and
patch review system first, to avoid making too many tools changes
at once, and because that issue seems to be more urgent and
disruptive of workflow. I'm whipping up an email on what I think
are the right short-term and medium-term steps. Once we have that
well in hand, then revision control and build system would
probably be the next things to review for change.
The one thing bad about git is for people who don't use a *nix:
Subversion works quite
well on Windows, including powerful GUI tools. Git just isn't the
same. (For one,
it won't work without Cygwin. I can currently build WebKit/Qt
without having Cygwin
anywhere near my computer). I'm not familiar with other DVCS, but
until one has good
Windows support, that would rule out a portion of developers.
At least on Windows I use mysygit myself (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
) From the project description: "Historically, Git on Windows was
only officially supported using Cygwin. To help make a native Windows
version, this project was started, based on the fork."
-Benjamin Meyer
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