[MPlayer-dev-eng] Git Checklist Was: Git migration

[Luca Barbato]

On 1/12/11 5:02 PM, Nico Sabbi wrote:
>
> what's the advantage of git over svn? I don't know if and when I'll have
> the time to return coding for mplayer,
> but in case I'd like to know what death to die for:) .
> You know, I'm quite conservative regarding my development tools.

Faster

Compact (the whole history takes the space of a single svn checkout...)

Better tools provided by default (git grep, git bisect, git checkout -p)

Easier way to send and merge patches (git send-email, git format-patch, 
git am)

Better tracking of files (git tracks lines and discovers rewrites and 
renames by itself)

And probably some other stuff I'm forgetting

I wrote for ffmpeg a small guide, it gives most of the pointers for get 
an idea of the commands (they are a bit different).

lu