From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Git Vs. Svn for a project which *must* distribute binaries too. Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:58:35 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <5971b1ba0706040448i6e166031od1212192a549c4a9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Bryan Childs X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 04 17:00:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HvE3E-0003FY-Sp for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:00:57 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750916AbXFDPAo (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:00:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751508AbXFDPAo (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:00:44 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58020 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750916AbXFDPAo (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:00:44 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Jun 2007 15:00:38 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO localhost) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 04 Jun 2007 17:00:38 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+/Ue4ibVy/Cf8/r3ycXE/YWegInR4q8V77fi9Tyx GHOYoxz0aPvT66 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <5971b1ba0706040448i6e166031od1212192a549c4a9@mail.gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Bryan Childs wrote: > 1) Due to the nature of our project, with multiple architectures > supported, we strive to provide a binary build of our software with > every commit to the subversion repository. Git has no problems with binaries. Actually, one could argue that it has less problems with binary files than with text files, since it only recently acquired the capability (disabled by default) to transcribe certain files into the CR/LF line ending some Windows programs still insist on. As for checking in binaries, you even could set up a post-commit hook, which builds the binary, and checks it into a separate branch... Ciao, Dscho