From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32389 invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2011 15:16:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 32379 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Oct 2011 15:16:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL,TW_BZ X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:16:40 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LT200D00A87OA00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:15:48 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.93.74]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LT200CWJAEBE9G0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:15:48 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:16:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: GIT and CVS In-reply-to: To: pmuldoon@redhat.com Cc: andre.poenitz@nokia.com, gdb@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83y5wnk3iw.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <201110141435.59962.andre.poenitz@nokia.com> <8339evlkq2.fsf@gnu.org> 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/msg00131.txt.bz2 > From: Phil Muldoon > Cc: André Pönitz , > gdb@sourceware.org > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:01:38 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: André Pönitz > >> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:35:59 +0200 > >> > >> * "Git sucks on MS-Windows". Git is usable on Windows > > > > Git _is_ usable on Windows, but it still sucks. It doesn't integrate > > well with a native MinGW environment, I cannot easily invoke it from > > the Emacs VC interface, etc. It's inconvenient. > > I use emacs and git daily. It would help if you could describe this. > How does it not integrate well with the MinGW environment? Is it a > matter of configuration, or some software limitation issue? It's a matter of tinkering with your Emacs configuration and your system configuration. There's no native git port to Windows. There's the Cygwin port, and there's the port based on MSYS (MsysGit). If your development environment is Cygwin, or if you use MSYS tools for everyday work anyway, then perhaps you already have Emacs set up for them (for Cygwin, the best way is simply to use the Cygwin build of Emacs). But my development environment includes neither Cygwin nor MSYS, it is a native w32 environment. The native w32 ports of Posix tools I use are incompatible with MSYS or Cygwin tools. So for me, using git means to have 2 segregated environments, or somehow be able to use MsysGit without stumbling on the MSYS programs it brings with it. The only easy way I found to do that is to use git from the MSYS shell, and not have it on my normal PATH, which means I need either a separate Emacs session, or give up the Emacs VC interface to git. > Well the original topic was about CVS and GIT, so that should be > directed to me, over Andre. But archer uses git, a lot of people > (unscientific I know) use the GDB git mirror. So those are the options > that I constrained the conversation too. I use the git mirror as well, though the bzr-git plugin. But I only do that because there's no bzr mirror; if there were, I would use bzr instead.