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Hi all.

Just been talking to Fred about the possibility of setting up a FreeEMS git repo for keeping developers/interested parties more up to date with non-version-bump-worthy updates.

The reason I am suggesting this is git makes it alot easier to do independant / offline development and still share your work easily and quickly, and I think this is what we need due to the lead developer(s) situations.

Since Fred already keeps his work in a local svn repo, setting this up should be easy using the git-svn bridge.

Basic workflow to keep the git repo up-to-date would be:
- Commit to svn
- Using git, "pull" changes from svn
- "Push" changes using git to an internet accessible repo e.g. http://github.com or http://gitorious.org/

To commit changes made by a git user back to the svn repo is pretty much the reverse procedure. Just swap "push" and "pull".

I'm not gonna get too deep into explaining git as its been done before a million times, but I did find this git tutorial for people with svn experience: http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html

Cheers, hope this helps!
Aaron

I'm a little shy with half finished stuff anyway, but I have been meaning to get stuff "out there" a bit more as things start to progress. I definitely want to keep my local SVN as a master though as it allows me to do offline revision history stuff (yes, I know git can do that, maybe you'll convert me...). I don't want to be relying on the sf.net svn for my daily work on this.

Aaron has volunteered to help me get this setup in a week or two.

It should mean more life to the project for observers who are genuinely interested.

Cheers!

Fred.

Why GIT over mercurial ?

Torvalds likes it too :-)

Fred.

Torvalds wrote git

AUTHORS
· git´s founding father is Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.

· The current git nurse is Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.

· The git potty was written by Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>.

· General upbringing is handled by the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

I know, but that only guarantees technical excellence, not usability and eclipse integration etc ;-)

Give me some good reasons. I've been doing my homework you know ;-)

Fred.

My only reason for using it is I am proficient in it

You aren't helping :-p

Anything at all?

Fred.

It has a cool name?

I'm fine with whatever

Did I mention how much I love Git?

How did you let me suffer for 2 whole months?? Jeeeeez... ;-)

Fred.