On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:37:46PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: >Hi all; > >I'm considering switching from CVS to another form of SCM. Currently, >Savannah supports (in addition to CVS) GNU arch and GIT. If SVN were >supported I'd probably go for that, because (a) it has great support for >alternative OSs like Windows, etc.; and (b) GNU make development is >currently straightforward enough that the advanced features of GIT >(advanced merging and peer-to-peer development) aren't critical. >However, SVN is not an option and I would like some more advanced SCM >capabilities such as moving/renaming files (I've been putting off some >code cleanups waiting for this). > >It seems like GIT is where the mindshare is these days, plus a number of >the other autotools projects have already migrated (or are in the middle >of migrating) to GIT, so that's what I'd go with. As with the other >projects, we'll maintain a read-only CVS mirror of the main GIT archive >at least for the time being so people can use that to obtain code, the >same way they do today. Still, it would be better if people had more >direct access; I'd be happy to delegate support for Windows (MINGW, >Cygwin, etc.) and pull those from other GIT repositories if that seems >reasonable. > >I don't really know what the current state-of-the-art is WRT GIT on >non-POSIX systems, so... please give me your opinions on this change.
git is available for download from the standard Cygwin installation and it reportedly works fine. Isn't there a pure MinGW (not msys) version too? cgf _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
