gEDA-dev: Souce Contreol of big architectural projects inGoogleSoC....

[Peter Clifton]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 22:45 +0100, Bert Timmerman wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I'm still experimenting with both schematics and code under git and gitk,
> and I still haven't decided yet, that is, in reverting to cvs.
> 
> One of the pros of git I see sofar is in putting together a tarball as in: 
> 
>   git-archive --format=tar --prefix=some/prefix/ HEAD | gzip > ball.tar.gz
> 
> This is much more easier than creating a tarball from a cvs repository.
> 
> As for finding caveats, do you have a shortlist of caveats and/or pitfalls
> for git ?
> 
> Call it a "cvs versus git" evaluation for gaf if you will.

So far, I don't have such a document. What is clear, is that there can
be some issues in keeping a git repository which tracks CVS accurately -
mostly relating to how branches are handled by cvsps (the patchset
constructing mechanism which git-cvsimport uses.)

> As this may help if you want to have Ales and the other developers make a
> decision in moving gaf under git revision control in the nearby future.

I don't have a burning desire for everyone to move to git. It is useful
for me though, and I do desire a reliable, possibly "official" git
repository which tracks CVS, or whatever RCS gEDA ends up using.

Peter C.