On 07/11/2011 07:52 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi, > > / /I know that git is not integrated as a vcs for LyX documents, but > how much work would t be to include it? I remember reading somewhere > that just a few scripts have to be changed - could somebody point me > into the right direction? > > Richard Heck wrote (on 4/30/2010): >> > >> > Pavel, >> > >> > I seem to remember that there were some issues you ran into when >> > thinking about adding git as backend for LyX VC. What were those? >> > 1. detection we are inside repo. > 2. different workflow than rcs/cvs/svn especially difference between > committing and pushing. > > it would need to re-think VCS API we have and possibly do some brainstorming > especially about point 2, because it is not clear to me what operations / > workflow should we actually support. > > all this is doable but in the order of magnitude harder than it was with > adding(fixing) CVS support. > (i) is certainly fixable, in the sense that we can spawn "git status" and check the return value, but it is not as easy as looking for .svn, say. (ii) is definitely a different issue.
Richard
