From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: alsa cvs broken Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:04:22 +0200 Message-ID: <443406A6.9050004@keyaccess.nl> References: <44310468.6080303@superbug.co.uk> <44311356.1000108@superbug.co.uk> <443147CC.40905@keyaccess.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Jaroslav Kysela , James Courtier-Dutton , alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Takashi Iwai wrote: > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: >> Note that most of other developers are sending us standard unified diffs >> (and this way will remain). If you use internally for development GIT >> or HG is another thing. We will maintain the ALSA GIT tree as well for the >> kernel development, but our code is not only kernel code. > > I think Rene's point is : > > - git gets more popular than hg (not only for kernels like Keith's > case) > - developers are too lazy to install hg extra only for ALSA Well, not so much "lazy" though :-) All's fine and well if you do this stuff for a living but if you're the peripheral type that just submits the occasional bugfix, an unfamiliar development environment will not help bring you _beyond_ that occasional unidiff point to more active involvement. My vote for GIT was just that though, one vote... Rene. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642