[FFmpeg-devel] Who is against GIT now? (Was: [RFC] libswscale into the FFmpeg SVN repo)

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 03:40:22PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
> > Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Reimar D?ffinger
> >> <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 05:28:40PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and i belive there is no consensus on a switch to git ...
> >>>>
> >>>> I just wonder who is against git now...
> >>>
> >>> Well, to be honest I no longer see a point for git for a central,
> >>> master repository, and there are known inconveniences (no usable
> >>> way to modify commit messages, no simple revision number, all
> >>> references to revisions in commit messages would break
> >>
> >> x264 seems to be doing just fine continuing to use revision numbers
> >> with git. ?A few extra client-side scripts might be useful
> >> (revision_number_to_git_hash and vice versa), but that's about it.
> >
> > So git the perfect tool... as long as you write your own magic shell scripts
> > to work around its shortcomings?
> 
> If you want to do non-standard things you need your own scripts.
> Strangely the rest of the world is doing fine with SHA-1 id's.

Strangely, some of the other distributed revision control systems do
implement version numbers.  At least mercurial and bazaar IIRC, which in
practice amounts to everyone except git.

Diego