[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-11-04 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
> This solves a problem that I have frequently - I have simultaneous > changes in my source tree for different reasons but I sometimes want > to commit just some of these changes as a related group. This I already do since long with psvn.el in Emacs without changelist available. > Finding out a

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-11-03 Thread Bill Page
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > ... > Distributed systems allow to easily create a lot of branches. > This is certainly important for big projects.  But we have only > few developers.  Given that for small changes the best strategy > probably is to develop them outside the

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-10-28 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > > > BTW, maybe I will start > > using darcs again locally as a way of more easily staging patches. > > Why not use git? Not just locally but switch the whole fricas tree at > sourceforge? Using git is for the basic things that we use as easy as > using svn. But it would

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Ralf Hemmecke wrote: > >> BTW, maybe I will start >> using darcs again locally as a way of more easily staging patches. > > Why not use git? Not just locally but switch the whole fricas tree at > sourceforge? Using git is for the basic things that we use as easy as

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-10-28 Thread Bertfried Fauser
Dear Bill, > As I understand it, git like darcs does not require anything other > than a common web server to be able to distribute a public repository. > All of the rest of the work is done by the programs installed on your > local workstation/laptop. No? What ever it uses, it failed to compile

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-10-28 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
All you have to do is: 1. Go to the directory where your top-level code directory is. 2. Issue "git init". 3. Choose A or B. Variant A: Remove all files that you don't want git to remember. Issue "git add ." Variant B: Type "git add x" for every file x that you want git

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-10-28 Thread Bill Page
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Bertfried Fauser wrote: > > I have tried to set up a git repository on my ancient server in > Konstanz, unfortunately the SuSE 8.1 running there is to old to > compile it. Anyhow the server is very unstable, but I could ask > local computer people to get access to

[fricas-devel] Re: svn vs. darcs vs. git

2009-10-28 Thread Bertfried Fauser
Hi, I have tried to set up a git repository on my ancient server in Konstanz, unfortunately the SuSE 8.1 running there is to old to compile it. Anyhow the server is very unstable, but I could ask local computer people to get access to a machine here and set up a git ? Ciao BF. -- % PD Dr Bertf