From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:11:07 -0400 Message-ID: <20060602041107.GA5429@spearce.org> References: <9e4733910606011521n106f8f24s6c7053ce51e3791e@mail.gmail.com> <1149204044.27695.38.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606011755n29a149f2m1409c5a23888f1c5@mail.gmail.com> <1149214075.5521.31.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606011936i725e8eb2h8c2357f3688da43e@mail.gmail.com> <1149219593.5521.34.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606012047h727a25f1vb367c880f8933c4e@mail.gmail.com> <1149220518.5521.43.camel@neko.keithp.com> <9e4733910606012100s7ace4721le6fbfbcaadfb6c43@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Keith Packard , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jun 02 06:11:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fm10J-0002UT-19 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:11:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751306AbWFBELQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:11:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751307AbWFBELQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:11:16 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:9174 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306AbWFBELP (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:11:15 -0400 Received: from cpe-72-226-60-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([72.226.60.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1Fm0zw-0006nn-ML; Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:10:56 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7967620E445; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:11:07 -0400 (EDT) To: Jon Smirl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606012100s7ace4721le6fbfbcaadfb6c43@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jon Smirl wrote: > On 6/1/06, Keith Packard wrote: > >On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 23:47 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > >> On 6/1/06, Keith Packard wrote: > >> > Git runs fine on Windows these days; asking people to use reasonable > >> > tools to contribute to the project doesn't seem crazy to me. > >> > >> WIndows, Mac, Solaris and Linux will cover most Firefox developers. > >> Is git to go on those platforms? Is WIndows native or cygwin? > > > >I think the windows stuff may still be cygwin, but Mac and Solaris work > >fine with the git, of course. It's just simple posix code, after all > > It is going to have to be native Windows to move some of the > developers over. They are true blue MS types that won't touch anything > close to Unix so cygwin is out. Then GIT on Windows might be out. GIT today requires not only a decent UNIX shell but also, GNU tools, Perl and Python. Porting to Solaris has recently had some more effort put into it to remove some of the GNU tool dependencies but perhaps one of the most important features (git-merge-recursive) is a Python script. I'm running GIT at work on a Windows/Cygwin installation which is really quite bare bones. I think I have about 15 Cygwin packages installed total and GIT is running fine in that environment. It can't send patches by email but the corporate firewalls wouldn't permit that anyway... Perhaps you can tell the true blue MS types that Cygwin is a native Windows application. After all it uses the Win32 API. :-) -- Shawn.