[MPlayer-dev-eng] Git migration

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On 2 jan 2011, at 10:37, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:01:22PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >> On 21 dec 2010, at 11:54, Clément Bœsch <ubitux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Since FFmpeg is migrating to Git, it was question of doing it also for
> >>> MPlayer. Is there anyone opposed to this? Luca mentionned the MPlayer dev
> >>> team in FFmpeg mailing list so I'd be happy to have opinions on this.
> >> 
> >> I so far assumed that both would be moved at more or less the same
> >> time, in a way that keeps the embedded FFmpeg checkout working,
> >> everything else would be quite a mess, at least for any less advanced
> >> users.
> > 
> > Unfortunately your assumption is baseless, there is nobody working on
> > migrating MPlayer.  Note that I'm not saying I'm opposed, I'm just
> > stating facts.
>
> While it may be wrong, it is not baseless, that was the plan that was
> stated during one of the initial discussions.

Scratch that wording of mine, sounds harsher than I meant it to sound.

> I also assumed it to be necessary in order to be able to test
> that integrating the FFmpeg subtree actually works with git
> (most of the time I have heard only bad things about git in that
> regard), since there are still quite a few FFmpeg developer using
> MPlayer AFAICT knowing whether we will risk losing that tight
> integration forever with the git switch would be useful information...

It seems like it's time for me to respin my patchset that decouples
FFmpeg from MPlayer...

Diego