Re: Switching to git?

[Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>]

Vesa Jääskeläinen <chaac@nic.fi> writes:

> willem wrote:
>> Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:
>>>> Other GNU projects have switched to git.  Savannah supports git.  The
>>>> list of the GNU projects using git is pretty impressive:
>>>> http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/
>>>>
>>>> I think GNU GRUB would be a welcome addition.
>>>
>>> +1. I brought this up to discussion some time ago here but hadn't much
>>> feedback. I hope we can move forward this time :-D
>>>   
>> I did look at git.
>> I agree , git is better than svn.
>
> Git indeed has some nice features, but why I would hesitate its usage is
> that it does not integrate well with some IDE's like Eclipse. I know
> there has been some plugin (dead now?), but that is not ready for
> mainstream use. Where as CVS and SVN works nicely. If I am not mistaken,
> git is quite platform dependant... at least last time I looked at it, it
> was coded like it.
>
> That being said... I am not too strongly against switching to it.

That's why GIT has git-cvsserver so you can use plain CVS tools to
commit in a GIT repository. ;-)

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