Re: [Fwd: Re: What's in git.git]

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 19, 2006, 17:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20061119174902.GW7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910611190940y147992b8mbdfac5a51f42e0fe@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 06:40:06PM CET, Jon Smirl wrote:

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> Brendan told me that he would not consider Mozilla moving to git until
> a native Windows version is released so I just dropped the whole
> thing. It is too much effort and they don't even really want it. They
> are probably going to switch to SVN.  I told him that SVN would end up
> being a disaster and he got mad at me. That's when I stopped working
> on cvs2svn/git.

I see. :-(

Could you please publish cvs2git in whatever state you have it so that someone else possibly interested could pick it up and finish the missing bits? It would be shame if the already done work would end up wasted.

> #2) git needs native Windows support, this probably includes MSVC
> integration. There are a lot of non-technical people working on
> Mozilla like accessibility, doc, artwork, translations, they are all
> on Windows. Brendan explicitly ruled out cygwIn.

This is sort of catch-22, we have probably no developers interested enough in porting Git to native Windows and it's not clear we are going to get any until Git runs on native Windows.

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