From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22714 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2011 16:00:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 22702 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Oct 2011 16:00:30 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.nokia.com (HELO mgw-da01.nokia.com) (147.243.128.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:00:13 +0000 Received: from gar.localnet (berwst16747.europe.nokia.com [172.25.167.47]) by mgw-da01.nokia.com (Switch-3.4.4/Switch-3.4.3) with ESMTP id p9EG081d004147; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:00:09 +0300 From: =?utf-8?q?Andr=C3=A9_P=C3=B6nitz?= To: pmuldoon@redhat.com Subject: Re: GIT and CVS Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:10:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-30-generic; KDE/4.5.5; i686; ; ) Cc: gdb@sourceware.org References: <201110141435.59962.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201110141800.07377.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> X-Nokia-AV: Clean X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00141.txt.bz2 On Friday 14 October 2011 16:57:59 ext Phil Muldoon wrote: > Andr=C3=A9 P=C3=B6nitz writes: > > * "Git sucks on MS-Windows". Git is usable on Windows to a degree that = projects > > much bigger than gdb switched to it, after careful consideration of a l= ot of > > alternatives, including commercial offerings. My main work currently is= on a > > smaller cross platform project about 3/4 the "total size" of gdb (inclu= ding > > bfd, libiberty, etc) and this is certainly in a very usable state on W= indows. >=20 > That's interesting, is there an active community around GIT there? I think there's a community around msys. google finds something. I don't=20 really know myself as I've never felt the urge to get in to touch with them, git just works "well enough" for us. It is indeed noticably slower than on Linux, but that's pretty much the same for SVN, or completely unrelated=20 things like compilation with gcc.=20 We are also using it in a MinGW based environment, i.e. pretty much in the= =20 same context as Eli's setup, so I am really not sure why our experiences differ so much. Perhaps it's really the integration with the emacs VCS inte= rface that makes the difference here. But then, editor integrations are fixable ;= -} Andre'