From: Isaac Hier <isaachier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:19:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Implement CMake build
Message-ID: <CAG6xkCbtVYa_eqZj4m74jXo7yC8kS8kjWm-fALePmHaH5yY0qg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c5d21b22-e4cd-e338-c953-90a81981e23c@gmx.net>

Thanks for your interest! This patch is based on the cmake-build
branch of https://github.com/isaachier/git, but the full history is on
the cmake branch (squashed it for easier readability). Hope that
helps.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Isaac,
>
> On 01/24/2018 02:45 PM, Isaac Hier wrote:
>> I realize this is a huge patch, but does anyone have feedback for the
>> general idea?
>
> Thank you very much. I am *personally* interested in this due to several
> reasons (which are mostly that I am used to CMake and when I do
> something on the Git codebase, I always end up that its build system
> recompiles everything ...which drives me crazy as hell. Using CMake, I
> could simply use out-of-source builds and be happy).
>
> I am not sure if it should go into the main Git repo. I'd already be
> happy if I could pull it from somewhere (github for example) and rebase
> it to use for my local branches.
>
> ~Stephan