Hi I just joined this list a few days ago. And haven't contributed a single codeline to flightgear (yet). So its not my place to say what I'd like best. But I'm possibly kind of the avarage maybe-contributor with svn and cvs experience (later I have nightmares about), who has never heard of git before and uses windows. I just want to share my first impressions with msysGit, and the results of my binary-handing tests.
* Installation was trivial. * Using the console commands works perfectly and there is lots of tutorials and manuals for those around. * The GUI is a bit odd. But using the graphical branch plot works and is simple to use. * It's not comparable with tortoise when it comes to usability, but it gets the job done with acceptable effort. * The speed is ok (tested with the data part of flightgear). * msysGit converts LF/CRLF by default with is very convenient. I did some tests regarding the handling of binary files. GIT seems to be fully able to handle binary files. What you put into a repository you get out identic (checked with md5). There is however a catch. If msysGit converts LF->CRLF on checkout and CRLF->LF on checkin. It does this on files its heuristic regards as textfiles. If this heuristic fails, its possible that binaries get corrupted. The good news is that the heuristic seems working well. It did not classify a single file in fgdata wrong. The conversion can be disabled completely. Also its possible to manually define text/binary on a per file basis, should the heuristic ever fail for a file. I must admit that I was sceptical first, beeing used to subversion for years. But the desciptions (and torwalds talk) of distributed SCM make me insterested in git. I really enjoyed the ease of branching and merging despite the poor gui. This morning at work, using subversion felt suddently much more clumsy, even with tortoise. For new developers looking at fg, it's important to see that there is no CVS in use (I almost walked away when saw it on the page). If git or svn is not that relevant. It took me 10 min to get git installed and start downloading from a remote repository. But it took 2+ days to get it compile (to be honest, it still doesn't). Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
