Re: [Maybe a boring Question] Why not GIT?

[goodmenlinux at gmail dot com]

On 2013-08-08 21:42:44, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:42:44 +0200
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> To: goodmenlinux@gmail.com
> Cc: crossgcc@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: [Maybe a boring Question] Why not GIT?
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30)
> 
> Brock, All,
> 
> On 2013-08-08 09:47 +0800, goodmenlinux@gmail.com spake thusly:
> > I found that github has ct-ng dir, but the latest update is 3 years ago.
> > Does this great project has any plan to use GIT?
> > Any comment on it?
> 
> Oh... That's been a long time since that one came last...
> 
> OK, a bit of history:
>   - first I slightly hacked on the original crosstool (then maintained
>     by Dan Kegel), and there was no repository, only occasional tarball
>     releases
>   - then I hacked a bit more, and that eventually became crosstool-NG
>   - this was done in subversion, since I was really comfortable with it
>   - I eventually reached the limits of svn especially when I witnessed
>     an unrecoverable repository crash twice in a row, with no apparent
>     reason
>   - I looked at the other existing possibilities (circa 2009-07):
>     - cvs? Muahaha!
>     - bazaar: you must be kidding me! ;-)
>     - git: widespread, powerfull, yet very complex to get up to speed;
>       one needs his flight license and 200h in active duty before beinf
>       able to at least land a merge sanely.
>     - Hg: repository set up and live in two hours, with no prior
>       knowledge of a DVCS.
>   - choice made: Hg that was to be.
> 
> Now, time has passed, I am now confident in my git abilities (although I
> am far from being an expert). When I get some time, I'll migrate to git,
> but there is n oschedule for this.

  Great! I wish this great project will switch to git before GIT
fade out modern living. I'll do some works on ARM platform for
this project.

> 
> Anyway, there exist Hg <-> git converter, and one can even use git to
> work with an Hg repository in the meantime.
> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> 
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