I just want to point out that since the last discussion we collected some migration advice at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GitForDarcsUsers
Some of it may be untested (or wrong), but it should be a good starting point. On 10 January 2011 22:15, Neil Mitchell <ndmitch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As another non-GHC contributor, my opinion should probably also count for >> little, but my experience with git has been poor. >> >> I have used git daily in my job for the last year. Like Simon PJ, I >> struggle to understand the underlying model of git, despite reading quite a >> few tutorials. I have a high failure rate with attempting anything beyond >> the equivalents of darcs record, push, and pull. > > I'm in exactly the same camp as Malcolm. I don't understand git, and I > end up deleting the entire repo and starting again every time I try > and do anything clever - something I've never needed to do with darcs. > I consider the git equivalent of "darcs unrecord" to be "rm -rf", but > I'm sure that's a lack of knowledge/intuition on my part. > > All my git dislike aside, I wouldn't worry about git and Windows. GHC > on Windows already drags in plenty of dependencies from Cygwin or > Mingw, both of which provide workable git binaries, and none of which > ever seem to have caused a problem. The standard gui's (gitk and git > gui) both work on Windows, and I certainly miss them when using darcs. > > Thanks, Neil > > _______________________________________________ > Cvs-ghc mailing list > cvs-...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc > -- Push the envelope. Watch it bend. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users