Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

[Andreas Ericsson]

Benoit SIGOURE wrote:
> Context: GNU make seems to be willing to switch from CVS to ... 
> something else.
>
> On Oct 14, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> > [...] the big thing no one else seems to have addressed much in
> > other discussions I've seen is portability.  It LOOKS like there are
> > native ports of GIT to MINGW, but I have no idea how complete and usable
> > they are.  If someone who has a Windows system could look into that it
> > would be a big help.
>
> I think the best thing to do is to ask directly on the Git ML.
>
> Someone already pointed out that he'd like to use Git on Windows but 
> doesn't want to install either Cygwin or MSYS.  Is this possible, or 
> will it be possible in the near future?

It is sort of possible. Without cygwin he'll be in the black for the few
features that are still implemented as shell-scripts, but perhaps he/she
will then be inclined to help us migrate those scripts to C builtins.

>  Is it possible to use one of 
> the various GUIs (git-gui, gitk, qgit) on Windows without requiring a 
> POSIXish shell etc.?

qgit is possible to use natively, if one installs the qgit4 libraries for
windows, but it's more of a viewer than an action gui. git-gui and gitk
are usable if you have the windows TCL port. I haven't tried it, but
there are installers available, so testing it out (with all dependencies)
shouldn't take too long.

> When will the librarification of Git be finished?

When someone gets around to doing it ;-)

For a real answer, I'll have to defer to others. Everything works to my
satisfaction where I'm using it, so I'm not very inclined to fiddle with
it and risk breaking things.

>  (if Git is available 
> as a library, and if this library works on Windows, it will greatly help 
> truly native Windows ports).

Yup. I believe the primary reason for libification is to easier support
both porting and fully-fledged gui's.

> Not that I like Windows in any way, right, but it's legitimate for 
> people working on Windows ports of various software to be willing to 
> have a truly native port of Git for Windows.

Naturally. Amazingly few of those stuck with windows have so far
volunteered for helping out though, and since many of us on this list
don't even have a windows system for testing, it's kinda slow going :-/

I'd imagine getting in touch with Dscho to get a list of what's needed,
or reading the biweekly msys.git herald on this list, is the best way
of finding out the porting project's current priorities.

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