[FFmpeg-devel] ffmpegs future version control system

[Zuxy Meng]

Hi,

2007/5/9, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On 5/9/07, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? <flameeyes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 May 2007 10:23:20 +0200
> > Guillaume Poirier <gpoirier at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> >
> > > One thing that seems important for me is to make sure that GIT
> > > clients exist on other OS than just Linux. Last time I heard (a long
> > > time ago), GIT had only Linux clients, but my memory is quite fuzzy,
> > > and I haven't had much good sleep lately
> >
> > GIT, as in the base git package, works fine on FreeBSD too at least, I
> > think Solaris is not entirely supported though, and other operating
> > systems might not work as it is. This was one of the reasons why for
> > xine we preferred Mercurial (available almost everywhere Python works).
> >
> > Cogito on the other hand last time I looked used some GNUisms in the
> > scripts, so didn't work at 100% on non-GNU systems. Unfortunately,
> > Cogito *is* a time saver most of the times, and missing it is a big
> > annoying, at least to me.
>
> Ok.
>
> I just found the information I was looking for, pulled from wikipedia
> (it's funny how it's faster to dig wikipedia's article about a project
> that the project's documentation):
>
> "Git is targeted to run on Linux, but can be used on other Unix-like
> operating systems including BSD, Solaris and Darwin. Git is extremely
> fast on POSIX-based systems such as Linux.[27]"
>
> so it should work on OSX, cool :-)
>
> "Git does not run natively on Microsoft Windows; git runs on Windows
> by using Cygwin (a POSIX emulation), but this requires the
> installation and use of Cygwin.[28] Git on Windows is noticeably
> slower,[29] due to git's heavy use of file system features that are
> particularly fast on Linux.[30] In addition, many people find Cygwin
> installation too large and invasive for typical Windows use.[31]"
>
> [..]
>
> "A native Microsoft Windows port (using MinGW) is approaching
> completion,[34] but there is more work to be done, including handling
> of CRLF line endings.[35] Porting Git to Windows is difficult due to a
> number of architecture issues.[36]"
>
> So apart from Windows, GIT is supposed to work, at least.
> The situation with windows sucks though, I do hope it gets better in
> the future if we really switch to GIT (which is likely to happen since
> our charismatic leader is all for it).

Would it be convenient to have a readonly SVN repo kept in sync, until
a mature Windows port (as mature as SVN) is out?
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Zuxy
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