From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31187 invoked by alias); 10 Jun 2014 22:36:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 31172 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jun 2014 22:36:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-we0-f180.google.com Received: from mail-we0-f180.google.com (HELO mail-we0-f180.google.com) (74.125.82.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:36:40 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id x48so5436984wes.11 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:36:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=NkumyVvHw589Xl4s3ZnksRvn8DpUxcW2k8cyQlerpvc=; b=jnh1bAkHzB60xRucSa9+cet86INPJSM6TtCKg8YgqY84ra4/souOWH4ax7+oTu8Yc4 wmnU3UzdL3BIudH/BEp9/82wp4zGo/4YalPDy8OXDj6JijTt+437bzGRI7jvDxiJbeeG Z8NBTlBm5AhJyd6OeNb1OfjB0CXoXe1Axh/DjVllX2MZncFxerkyl0CM2RctV9SYabND RB7pYgeP5SBBi53skCCp4nN1WjfD7pGsrySjipe2UcQ35aOs/NXd27fMA3Y2UPOWkMUX PgptleWesyI32O3Zdlw5vDAVLC3+x/6jMl45UJAfV9Xt9pbx5L6DsPAqk6/tMwuFt4+y anmA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn/HuUgmpE2wzH0f3rD94CbF1Xdq42GRsgkwEZA3oAnITc3kFPfiozIy7iPDsTIdix/lmFP X-Received: by 10.180.37.180 with SMTP id z20mr22777258wij.58.1402439797700; Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dinwoodie.org (northrend.tastycake.net. [2001:ba8:0:1c0::1:1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p18sm23405548wik.3.2014.06.10.15.36.36 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:36:00 -0000 From: Adam Dinwoodie To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITA] Git et al Message-ID: <20140610223605.GA17140@dinwoodie.org> References: <53977FE0.6000707@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53977FE0.6000707@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-06/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 05:00:00PM -0500, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2014-01-11 14:01, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > >Our Git package hasn't been updated in a long time. Although its > >maintainer, Eric Blake, has been on the mailing lists, I don't think > >he's done any work in keeping Git up-to-date (including replying to a > >number of requests for updates), so I'd like to offer to take over. > > I haven't seen any progress on this for some time. Adam, are you > still working on this, and if so, what issues still remain? In theory I'm still working on this; in practice I haven't had time to devote to it in a while. I'd (perhaps naively) assumed it would mostly Just Work(TM), which turned out not to be the case. The only outstanding issue with my build is that git-cvs wasn't working. That seemed to be down to my build environment, as my attempts to build the source code available via the Cygwin mirrors showed the same behaviour, but those binaries work as expected. I'm considering this a deal breaker since the official way to get the current Cygwin source code is via CVS. If I hadn't fixed it by the time the Cygwin source moves to Git, I was going to suggest moving to the up-to-date Git build (or more likely, a fresh build of the latest and greatest upstream version) and accepting that while git-cvs wouldn't work, that would no longer affect a significant proportion of people.