From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6909 invoked by alias); 17 Sep 2009 12:56:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 6901 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Sep 2009 12:56:49 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SARE_MSGID_LONG40 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from cpanel5.proisp.no (HELO cpanel5.proisp.no) (209.85.100.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:56:43 +0000 Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com ([209.85.220.223]:44759) by cpanel5.proisp.no with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MoGXI-0007FS-A3 for ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:56:32 +0200 Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so4880221fxm.30 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:56:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.14.131 with SMTP id g3mr11453faa.68.1253192199927; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:56:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4AB22E5F.8090807@ecoscentric.com> References: <4AB22E5F.8090807@ecoscentric.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?Q?=C3=98yvind_Harboe?= To: Alex Schuilenburg Cc: eCos Disuss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] Switching to using git on eCosForge X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00129.txt.bz2 First of all: great to hear you're looking to upgrade from CVS to distributed development. A ~20 year leap in tools, bound to be tricky that one :-) > Why git in particular? No reason not to really. git is easy to use when cloning/downloading + web interfaces exist where you can download snapshots. + git is becoming more of a required skill for embedded development as Linux requires it, so I looked a bit at mercurial, but didn't really feel like learning more than one of these distributed systems.. it's been a while that anybody suggested or wanted anything but git as an alternative to svn in the circles I frequent. I'm sure git tools will improve with time. We're looking 5-10 years into the future here, right? > The choice of an alternative RCS should also take into consideration > Windows users, as well as speed and ease of use. Web interfaces on the server kinda take care of my greatest concern about those that do not want or need to learn git. They can wget + tar ...., no version control system at all involved. Also there are nice git server sites for those that have some pet project they are working on and want to share, e.g. http://repo.or.cz/, which pretty much fills the role that www.ecosforge.net has had up to now The above said, I don't think I'll care if eCos CVS switches to git or mercurial. Mercurial is next on my list of distributed systems to look into and if I only did closed source development, probably the preferred solution. --=20 =C3=98yvind Harboe Embedded software and hardware consulting services http://www.zylin.com -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss