Hi Brian! Yes, I must admit that support for Windows has been very poor. There do seem to be quite a few projects in development at the moment that could solve this problem. Bill is playing around with one now, so I'm sure that he will pass comment soon!
I have setup a git repo on one of Bill's machines and it seems to be working well so far, so anyone who'd like to clone from there just give me a shout and we can send you the details. Dave. On Mar 27, 1:50 pm, Cactus <rieman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mar 27, 1:27 pm, Dave <dhow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > I'm a postgrad student at Warwick, and I'm hoping to start > > contributing to MPIR in the next weeks and months. > > > My plan is to implement some basic arithmetic in MIPS, and then tidy > > up the mpir_n functions, but to start I'm going to setup a git > > repository to track the SVN repo. > > > If anyone is interested in switching to using git instead of SVN, then > > let me know and we can try to sort out a central git repository (maybe > > someone has already made their own?). I've chatted with Bill, and we > > can certainly have something on one of his machines here at Warwick. > > > I don't know if any of you have experience with git, but I would > > certainly recommend that you take a look at it if you've not come > > across it before. SVN is incredibly slow and cumbersome in > > comparison. A lot of work has been done recently to make it more user > > friendly, and there are a few windows ports on the way... > > Welcome to our community Dave. > > I must admit to being a novice user of repositories in general and I > have very little idea of what the pros and cons of CVS, SVN, Mercurial > and GIT are. But I am surprised how dumb SVN is in that it blindly > copies and downloads everything in a branch even when files are > identical to those in other branches. It doesn't use intelligent > referencing (copy only on change) as I would expect > > But as a 'Windows only' user I don't see much for me in GIT right now. > > Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---