KDE development with git

[Simon Hausmann]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 08:12:40 Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Thiago Macieira schrieb:
> > Paolo Capriotti wrote:
> >> I do see the danger in having a zillion of different kde core projects
> >> spreaded in a number of hosting facilities, and that's exactly why I was
> >> proposing an "official" way to depart from svn.
> >
> > And I strongly oppose any official depart from Subversion at this time.
> >
> > You may use any VCS you want for your projects, but Subversion is still
> > the only official VCS for KDE. You must import your code into Subversion
> > if you want KDE translations. And you must import your code into
> > Subversion if you want KDE Release Managers to release your code.
> >
> > So, yes, I do see the danger of spreading source code around into
> > multiple hosting websites. That's why I urge everyone to keep using
> > Subversion.
> >
> > It's too soon to move away from Subversion. Everyone agrees with that.
> > Even the supporters of git, because they (should I say we?) recognise
> > that git isn't ready yet.
>
> On win32  there is a really cool graphical frontend for svn available
> which makes it very easy to work with svn.
> For git there is no native command line or graphical client available,
> only a cygwin based, which isn't a really option. So switching to git
> will throw back win32 development.

That is actually not correct. There is a maintained mingw port of git that 
works very well. (I am using it myself for the bits of Qt development I do on 
Windows)


Simon
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