Any interest in using git for scm?

Akira Kitada akitada at macports.org
Fri Nov 6 21:33:16 PST 2009


Not sure about git but Mercurial does have an extension for it
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/KeywordExtension

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Darren Weber <dweber at macports.org> wrote:
>
> Interesting thread.  Has there been any change in git-svn to support
> keywords like Id?
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Akira Kitada <akitada at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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