Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 21, 2006, 20:22 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0611212116340.26827@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061121200341.GH7201@pasky.or.cz>

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:39:35AM CET, Shawn Pearce wrote:
> > 
> > Yea, that lack of native win32 seems to be one of a number of
> > blockers for people switching their projects onto Git.
> 
> Yep. :-(

I started playing with MinGW, and got it to compile and run, with some features lacking. See

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0609021724110.28360@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

for details. From TFM

: The two biggest obstacles are fork() and the network stuff (I do not : plan on supporting Git.pm there). To overcome the absence of fork() I : wanted to use the subprocess stuff in MinGW's port of GNU make.

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> > I think there's a number of issues that are keeping people from
> > switching to Git and are instead causing them to choose SVN, hg
> > or Monotone:
> > 
> >   - No GUI.
> 
> It has been my impression that Git's situation is far better than in
> case of the other systems (except SVN: TortoiseSVN and RapidSVN). Is
> that not so?

I also started playing with writing a shell extension (this is what custom context menu entries are called in Windows) using only MinGW, and no payware (except, of course, Windows).

Since both of these little projects were sidetracks from what I am really supposed to do, I will not be able to continue on these on a regular basis. Get somebody else interested, though, and I will be glad to help!

Ciao, Dscho