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Wither git-cheetah?

Subject: Wither git-cheetah?

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2 messages between Jun 20, 2008 and Jun 20, 2008.

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Martin Langhoff· Jun 20, 2008, 15:53 UTC · lore

Is anyone working on git-cheetah? What I thougtht at the time was a joke from Johannes Schindelin (below) turned out to be a real "I'll stop work now" thing.

Moodle.org is now seriously considering a move to GIT, and a Tortoise-ish UI would be a good crutch for the transition. Anyone played with TortoiseHg? http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, John Goerzen wrote:
>> Think about it this way: once the Windows stuff for Git gets mature (to
>> the TortoiseGit level), there are going to be a lot of people using Git
>> that really *can't* operate a mail client because the only "mail client"
>> at their disposal is Outlook.
> That's a scary thought.  I will stop all my work on git-cheetah.

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Johannes Schindelin· Jun 20, 2008, 16:43 UTC · re: Martin Langhoff · lore

Re: Wither git-cheetah?

Hi,

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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> Is anyone working on git-cheetah? What I thougtht at the time was a
> joke from Johannes Schindelin (below) turned out to be a real "I'll
> stop work now" thing.
> 
> Moodle.org is now seriously considering a move to GIT, and a
> Tortoise-ish UI would be a good crutch for the transition. Anyone
> played with TortoiseHg? http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/

We had a brilliant application to work on Git-Cheetah for non-Win32 systems. Unfortunately, another project snatched that student, but we were scarce on GSoC slots anyway.

This would have been very nice for me, as I almost exclusively work on Linux these days. And I finally grasped the concept of "scratching your own itch".

So no, I have almost no intention on continuing to work on Git-Cheetah on Windows.

Having said that, we had a contributor who seemed to be quite willing to continue working on Git-Cheetah, as can be seen from the commit history. However, I have the impression that my comments on his patches put him off somewhat, even if I really liked his work.

Ciao, Dscho