[gst-devel] GStreamer switching to git

[Sean Estabrooks]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:00:52 +0100
Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net> wrote:

Hi Jan,

> I've been trying out msysgit on XP this morning. The biggest stumbling
> block by far seems to be support for ssh keys. It's an essential feature
> for us (the only available access method to git.freedesktop.org), but so
> far seems to only be support by either using the msys command line
> client only, or by jumping through hoops to configure
> Putty/Pageant/Plink as the ssh binary msysgit uses (I haven't yet been
> able to get this to work, but I saw it working and am trying).

It already works transparently if you just use a key without a passphrase.
If you're forced into using a passphrase then you're right, to use the GUI
you must do a little setup first.  But none of this should be a big hurdle
to overcome, it's a one-time setup thing not an ongoing problem.  Perhaps
we could create a little how-to so that everyone doesn't have to rediscover
the process for themselves.

> An alternate and very interesting option for the transition that Thadeu
> mentioned is to configure a git-cvsserver on fdo. This allows (at least)
> almost all the functions *I* need for working with GStreamer. It misses
> the ability to tag/branch/merge, but I only do those because I'm doing
> the releases. As far as I know, everyone else only checks out, updates
> (possibly to a tagged revision), checks diffs and commits - and it seems
> like a viable option for those. This would be a good way to completely
> avoid the 'Windows' problem while the tools mature.

Seems a bit of a shame to have to stay on CVS and not get any of the
advantages of using Git but it might help smooth things over during
a transition.  However as far as i know, fdo doesn't currently run the
Git cvs gateway, so it would require someone to do that work.

Sean