Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-06-04 Thread Jianming
>From the Git statics I created from the jesterking's git mirror, I found some mistakes, like mismatching commit number etc. Jianming On 26 May 2011 14:13, Lukas Tönne wrote: > Hello fellow coders, > > I have just had the mixed blessing of doing another git-svn branching > from the 'particles-2

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-06-01 Thread Michael McLay
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Jim Williams wrote: > http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Git_vs_Mercurial > > Other than not particularly liking SVN I've no personal preference, but > it looks like Mercurial would be a better match for Blender -- both in > terms of a Python orientation and Windows suppo

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-27 Thread Mathias Panzenböck
On 05/27/2011 09:53 AM, GSR wrote: > Hi, > g.ula...@gmail.com (2011-05-27 at 0929.04 +0600): >> I'm not sure switching the whole repo to git is a nice idea. Last time >> i've checked this it was very painful to work with libs/ repo cloned >> with git -- simple `git status` used to work ages. Maybe

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-27 Thread Agustin Benavidez
>From my experience i can clearly see that Blender project should be using GIT or Mercurial, and that switch is not only about eficiency and less pain, but also new development possibilities. Also, those who control the main code repository have the oportunity to demostrate that blender REALLY bel

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-27 Thread GSR
Hi, nat...@letworyinteractive.com (2011-05-27 at 1008.18 +0300): > > Another thing thats been discussed is having an SVN hook in our > > existing repo which keeps a GIT repo in sync. Currently the available > > GIT repos have some lag from trunk, With git matching trunk it would > > help us evaluat

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-27 Thread GSR
Hi, g.ula...@gmail.com (2011-05-27 at 0929.04 +0600): > I'm not sure switching the whole repo to git is a nice idea. Last time > i've checked this it was very painful to work with libs/ repo cloned > with git -- simple `git status` used to work ages. Maybe this is because > of plenty of binary f

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-27 Thread Nathan Letwory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27.5.2011 9:26, Campbell Barton wrote: > paroneayea and I discussed moving to GIT at length and he brought up > some issues which we'd need to resolve. > > - binaries may need to be masked out of SVN history so the initial > checkout of lib/ isn't

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Nathan Letwory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't see the added value in moving svn.blender.org to DVCS per sé, but since we have had also ideas to use more stringent code review I'd propose the following: Developers (especially those we don't have commit right to current SVN) who wish can st

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Sergey I. Sharybin
Hi, Campbell I've been moving our work SVN repo to GIT at my previous job* and Nathan should have script which moves SVN repo into GIT repo with handling all branches and so. So i could make tests too. But i'd prefer to compare speed GIT vs. Mercurial. I haven't used mercurial myself, but th

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Campbell Barton
paroneayea and I discussed moving to GIT at length and he brought up some issues which we'd need to resolve. - binaries may need to be masked out of SVN history so the initial checkout of lib/ isn't huge, (paroneayea said its possible with filter-branch when making the switch but its not trivial).

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Mathias Panzenböck
As long time bf-committers reader who has committed one or two tiny patches in the past I like to add: Pros for HG: More intuitive to use, especially things like revert. Nicely extensible using Python (e.g. generic keyring integration for repo passwords). TortoiseHg > TortoiseGit and cross platf

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Sergey I. Sharybin
Hi, I'm not sure switching the whole repo to git is a nice idea. Last time i've checked this it was very painful to work with libs/ repo cloned with git -- simple `git status` used to work ages. Maybe this is because of plenty of binary files, not sure. And size of that local cloned repo was

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Alex Fraser
+1 for switching to git or Mercurial. I am also maintaining several git branches (across a few machines) locally and rebasing from SVN is a pain. - Original Message - > http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Git_vs_Mercurial > > Other than not particularly liking SVN I've no personal preference, > b

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Jim Williams
http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Git_vs_Mercurial Other than not particularly liking SVN I've no personal preference, but it looks like Mercurial would be a better match for Blender -- both in terms of a Python orientation and Windows support. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Tom M wrote: > It was di

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Tom M
It was discussed a bit yesterday on irc as Jason was updating his sculpt branch to head that it would haven been much less pain with GIT potentially. Brecht and Ideasman and other core maintainers what are your views on moving to git or mercury? Ultimately the decision will be up to Ton of course

Re: [Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Diego B
+100 \o/ I really know what you mean, I have this problem since the age of cvs.. so +1. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Lukas Tönne wrote: > Hello fellow coders, > > I have just had the mixed blessing of doing another git-svn branching > from the 'particles-2010' svn branch i'm currently mainta

[Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

2011-05-26 Thread Lukas Tönne
Hello fellow coders, I have just had the mixed blessing of doing another git-svn branching from the 'particles-2010' svn branch i'm currently maintaining. Even though i already work with git locally to make use of its much nicer local staging and commit capabilities, the branching resulted in tota