On Jun 5, 2007, at 4:09 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> Yep, that's pretty close to what I ended up doing. I seem to >> recall, however, that it pulled down *all* revisions to every source >> file. (this was many months and a whole lot of stressful times ago, >> so my memory of this is fuzzy) > > It sounds like you'd missed the whole point of using git, and the > difference > between a "distributed" and "centralised" revision control system. > With a > distributed VCS, everyone has a full history of the source code.
That makes a lot of sense...I can see the advantages of that approach. > If you don't want the full history -- perhaps you only want 100 or so > revisions, so you can see what recent changes have been made -- > then recent > versions of git-clone have supported a --depth option. Note that you > can't "push" new revisions from a repository cloned with --depth, > but it > doesn't sound like you'd be doing that anyway. Ahh, I sure wish --depth had been there when I messed with it. > You made a point about git being difficult to build on non-Linux > systems, and > mentioned trying it a couple of years ago. It was maybe a year ago, or a bit more. > Bearing in mind that git is only > a couple of months older than two years, and was developed > specifically to > manage the Linux kernel history, this shouldn't be too surprising. > Although > Windows support still sucks (because fork() on Windows sucks, > basically) any > problems building on Unix-y platforms is a big bug and should be > reported as > such. I've yet to see *anything* on Windows that doesn't suck. My build platforms were Solaris 9 on UltraSPARC and MacOS X on PowerPC. I dug around looking for info, and all the archived list posts I could find had people asking what "distro" and "libc" people were running. That alone is often enough to make a non-Linux person run for the hills! ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user