Re: Engraving challenges

[Urs Liska]

Am 08.01.2014 11:26, schrieb Phil Holmes:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>
> To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>; "Janek Warchoł"
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 4:15 PM
> Subject: Engraving challenges
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > recently we discussed about comparing LilyPond's performance with that
> > of competing programs

...

> > a)
> > Who would be interested in participating by giving it a try with
> > another program?
> > As discussed sufficient proficiency with the tool and a current
> > version is required.
>
> I would be interested and willing to use Sibelius 7.0.

Great. You had already expressed this earlier, I know.

> > b)
> > Who would be interested in participating with LilyPond?
> > Of course with LilyPond it'll be easy to do it collaboratively, while
> > I don't really see how Finale users should do the same.
>
> I'll let someone else.

OK, we'll probably be too many anyway.

> My main concern is the emphasis on git.  Sibelius runs on my Windows box
> and I don't generally use git on that at all.  Sibelius also only
> produces binary files, so there's no point in trying to track or
> collaborate through git.  How would a Windows/non-git machine proceed?

The question is not unexpected but nevertheless tricky.
We _have_ to track binary files also with Git.
Half of the point is still there: Having a history chain of the file's 
development.
The other half is of course pointless as the commits don't provide 
meaningfull diffs.
And of course it will somewhat bloat the repo size, but we can accept 
this because the repo won't become huge anyway.

So it would be great if you would install Git also on the Windows 
machine. AFAIK this isn't a big deal anymore.

If that's not possible the only option I see is to somehow transfer the 
files somewhere where they can be added to the repository.
For example by
- making a copy with a revision number suffix.
- when in a git-friendly environment commit them one by one,
  stripping off the suffix.

Urs

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