Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-24 Thread Werner LEMBERG
- this was created by taking a snapshot of the current CVS repository; running git-cvsimport on it then 'git-filter-branch --msg-filter' with the attached (basic) script to improve the commit messages a bit. (It's still not perfect, could be improved in the future) Thanks.

[ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread David Turner
Hello everyone, long time no see :-) I'd like to know if Werner and others are interested in switching the FreeType repository to git in the near future ? I've been a heavy user of the tool since several months, and while there are really a few bat-shit insane user-interface issues with it

Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, David Turner da...@freetype.org wrote: I'd like to know if Werner and others are interested in switching the FreeType repository to git in the near future ? Hi David! This would be nice for me as well. Nothing really of high priority, but I wanted at least

Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
long time no see :-) Glad that you are still alive. I'd like to know if Werner and others are interested in switching the FreeType repository to git in the near future ? Yes. I will do a new release soon (there are very embarrasing errors w.r.t. FT_Get_Advance which I'l fixing right now),

RE: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread Graham Asher
Of Werner LEMBERG Sent: 23 February 2009 18:26 To: da...@freetype.org Cc: freetype-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ? long time no see :-) Glad that you are still alive. I'd like to know if Werner and others are interested in switching the FreeType repository to git

Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 19:25 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: Well, a direct import is trivial; however, it would be beneficial to walk over, say, the last 1000 to 2000 commits so that all get a nice one-line title. My 'parsecvs' tool will probably handle freetype's CVS repository fairly well.

Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
David Turner wrote: Hello everyone, long time no see :-) I'd like to know if Werner and others are interested in switching the FreeType repository to git in the near future ? That would also make it easier for me to hack on FreeType (the only piece of GNOME-based text rendering stack I've

Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread David Turner
Tad ! An experimental git repository is now in place, see http://git.freetype.org Note that: - this was created by taking a snapshot of the current CVS repository; running git-cvsimport on it then 'git-filter-branch --msg-filter' with the attached (basic) script to improve the

Re: [ft-devel] Switching to Git ?

2009-02-23 Thread Ralph Giles
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:20 PM, David Turner da...@freetype.org wrote: An experimental git repository is now in place, see http://git.freetype.org Woo! gitosis / git-daemon / gitweb are nice, but oh my, they are so badly documented that it's hard to avoid many pitfalls. I'll try to document