Any interest in using git for scm?

Akira Kitada akitada at macports.org
Fri Nov 6 20:03:56 PST 2009


Hello Darren,

I posted a similar question on the list before and failed :-)

http://marc.info/?t=124395706900073&r=1&w=2

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Darren Weber <dweber at macports.org> wrote:
>
> After listening to Linus Torvalds talk about git and looking at a video
> tutorial from Scott Chacon, it would seem beneficial to use git for MacPorts
> development.  It appears that git can be used with an existing svn
> repository (man git-svn), or the svn repository could be imported into a new
> master git repository (perhaps host it with github).  Is anyone currently
> using git for MacPorts development?
>
> After a few tips from MacPorts gurus and some experiments, I was able to
> draft the instructions at
>
> Create an experimental users directory in the MacPorts Subversion repository
>
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/CommittersTipsAndTricks
>
> The merge process with svn takes a while to grok, but it works OK.  Is
> anyone having an easier time with git?
>
> The resources here are helpful in learning git:
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/search/node/git
>
> Take care,
> Darren
>
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