In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arjan Bos
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
When trying to be helpful and create a patch, I noticed that the
development switched from CVS to GIT. Why? Now I have to find out what
git is, how it works and how to get it. First try Fink as that's the
semi-default package manager on Darwin. It cannot connect to cvs to
update itself. The error message tells me to try again later. Mmph,
only later it still doesn't work. Turns out I have to run an update
script that is almost guaranteed not to work and which should be
babysitted for several hours. Hate.
Maybe because GIT is a lot less work for main developers?
With CVS, HanWen has to keep a "master tree", and every time he updates,
everyone else has to throw away their development tree, take a copy of
his master, and merge all their changes back in.
With GIT, when that happens, the other developers simply say "merge all
HanWen's changes into my tree" - there is NO master tree.
Makes life so much easier as the number of developers starts rising.
Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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