Re: Music for the Martians?

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Arjan Bos 
<address@hidden> writes
> When trying to be helpful and create a patch, I noticed that the 
> development switched from CVS to GIT. Why? Now I have to find out what 
> git is, how it works and how to get it. First try Fink as that's  the 
> semi-default package manager on Darwin. It cannot connect to cvs  to 
> update itself. The error message tells me to try again later.  Mmph, 
> only later it still doesn't work. Turns out I have to run an  update 
> script that is almost guaranteed not to work and which should  be 
> babysitted for several hours. Hate.

Maybe because GIT is a lot less work for main developers?

With CVS, HanWen has to keep a "master tree", and every time he updates, 
everyone else has to throw away their development tree, take a copy of 
his master, and merge all their changes back in.

With GIT, when that happens, the other developers simply say "merge all 
HanWen's changes into my tree" - there is NO master tree.

Makes life so much easier as the number of developers starts rising.

Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - address@hidden