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Well, git is still problematic under Windows (and probably under exotic platforms such as AmigaOS). So, although it does have many strengths, the focus it has on *nix platforms is a bit minus, imho. Plus, Mercurial does have the aforementioned ability, if I'm not mistaken.<br><br>In the end of the day, branching doesn't happen very often in ScummVM (i.e. once every 6 months for releases and once every year for GSoC), so that's probably not the killer feature that will urge us move on to git...<br><br>Come to think of it, apart from offline commits, I don't see a real reason for change, perhaps someone could enlighten us more on the potential benefits of such a move?<br><br>Regards<br>Filippos<br><br><br>> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:54:08 +0300<br>> From: knakos@phys.uoa.gr<br>> To: max@quendi.de<br>> CC: scummvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<br>> Subject: Re: [Scummvm-devel] Switching from SVN to git, mercurial or bazaar<br>> <br>> Hello,<br>> <br>> Max Horn wrote:<br>> > All in all, I am interested in moving ScummVM from SVN to one of <br>> > these. For now, I have the most experience with git, but I wouldn't <br>> > exclude the others as possibilities.<br>> <br>> git is the choice I support here and by the way I strongly support <br>> scrapping subversion altogether (no git-svn). For me, the <br>> distributed/offline capabilities are an added bonus. What is really cool <br>> and powerful though in native git is the branching and merging via the <br>> non-linear commit history. This is a great feature indeed (and some of <br>> us have painful memories of svn merging) when you're working at more <br>> than one thing at a time. Let's go for it!<br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> Kostas<br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises <br>> looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest <br>> innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and <br>> enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. <br>> Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Scummvm-devel mailing list<br>> Scummvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<br>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scummvm-devel<br><br /><hr />Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. <a href='http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_BR_life_in_synch_062009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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