[Ffmpeg-devel] SVN dump

Rich Felker dalias
Mon Apr 16 01:30:26 CEST 2007


On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:18:58PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 09:27:46PM +0200, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:02:41PM +0300, Ismail D?nmez wrote:
> >> > Why don't just switch to GIT ? :) I wonder what does Michael thinks about it.
> >> 
> >> According to discussions on xine-devel it still is mostly a Linux-only
> >> project. In my personal opinion fully functional and easily obtainable
> >> clients for Windows, Linux, OSX and *BSD are the absolute minimum for
> >> the central repository.
> >
> > considering the popularity of git i think by the time we all agree to
> > switching ffmpeg to git and then actually do the switch git will
> > have clients for all major OSs
> 
> Perhaps of some relevance is that git allows live export as cvs.  This
> means that anyone with a cvs client can easily get the source, albeit
> with all the caveats that come with cvs, and only devs need to use
> git.  I don't suppose we have many pure-windows devs without even
> cygwin installed.

Wow, this is a neat feature. I wasn't aware. Do most projects using
git have that enabled, so that I could check them out without needing
a special git client?

Rich




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