A distributed repository sounds interesting, but given Linus Torvald's love of KDE, constant dissing of usability, and the fact that git has 119 commands, this gives me pause.
Sounds like software designed for someone with an encyclopedic memory. I really only use 8 commands in CVS (update, commit, checkout, add, remove, tag, diff, import).
.hc
On Oct 23, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
I don't want to sound like I'm just trumpeting the latest hype, but someone is going to say it, so it may as well be me:
Considering the highly distributed nature of Pd development (lots of people with dev access working on different, independent parts), I really think a distributed system like Git would be appropriate to the Pd project.
Instead of committing your changes to one big repo, you just work on your own, developing features, and you tell people when you've done something cool, and they are free to copy it from you and merge it into their version (or not). It takes the politics right out of things. Everyone is in charge of their own work, and no one else's.
I've been playing with it a lot lately and it's really got some advantages in how it deals with team work. There are also lots of scripts to help making a transition from CVS.
In any case it's not my decision, but I highly recommend checking it out. It works on Windows under MingW as well as OS X and Linux.
http://git.or.cz/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html
Steve
On 10/22/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
Hey,
There was gung-ho talk back at PdCon about switching to SVN. It's been quiet recently, any word on that? :)
.hc
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