[FFmpeg-devel] switching to git - eventually?

Måns Rullgård mans
Fri Jan 11 23:32:28 CET 2008


Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> writes:

> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:58:19AM +0000, Robert Swain wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > On 07/01/2008, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:11:54AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
>> > > > On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 12:40 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> > > > > - We must be reasonably confident developers know how to use
>> > > > > git, or there will be trouble.
>> > > >
>> > > > Getting more developers to access the svn repository through
>> > > > git-svn could be a good first step.
>> > >
>> > > providing some idiot proof docs on how to set up git-svn with
>> > > working push to svn would surely help here ...
>> > 
>> > Indeed. I have had to make a set of incremental, dependent patches
>> > (i.e. apply them in order) myself and I decided to take the
>> > opportunity to look at git. In some situations its a bit awkward but
>> > here are some notes I made. I also have a query about the desired
>> > format of diffs that I will elaborate after the notes.
>> > 
>> > (note: commands prefixed with $)
>> > 
>> > initial checkout:
>> > $ git-clone git://git.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg ffmpeg-git
>> 
>> as other have already said, this one doesnt allow you to push changes
>> to svn.
>
> It doesn't even allow to compile the grabbed sources (due to the lack
> of libswcale). So IMO, pushing changes to svn is of little relevance
> (unless you consider pushing changes not even test compiled is OK).

There's a libswscale git repo right next to the ffmpeg one.

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