[poppler] Switching source control tools.

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu Apr 26 12:05:01 PDT 2007


A Dijous 26 Abril 2007, Jeff Muizelaar va escriure:
> I sort of hate to bring the issue up because it tends to be contentious.
> However, I think we can all agree that there is very little reason to
> continue using CVS.
>
> The way I see it, we basically have two options: svn and git.
> Personally, I'd prefer git and I'm going to assume Kristian does as
> well. However, the most frequent committer is Albert and I'd say there
> is no point thinking about git unless he can be convinced.
>
> The big disadvantages to git are probably it's ease of use and windows
> portability. Personally, I never really understood CVS and find git much
> more logical. I also don't think the windows issue is that big a deal.
> Git is completely usable in cygwin and there is also work on a mingw
> port. Also, Cairo uses git and it certainly has more active win32
> developers and users than poppler does.
>
> So what do people, especially Albert, think? Now that 302 is merged
> (thanks Albert) we have time to do less constructive things like argue
> about which SCM to use :)

How much time does a complete git newbie need to learn to do a checkout, diff 
and commit?

Can i learn this basic things in say, less than 1 hour?

If yes and nobody says NO i'd like to try a new VCS :-)

Albert

>
> -Jeff
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