Git Migration: github with svn access

Andy Clayton q3aiml at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 20:04:10 EST 2012


On 12/29/2011 03:50 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> On Dec 29, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:
>
> I've been using git on windows for years in my daily work by now. The one from
> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?can=3 is indeed the "official"
> one if you want a git (cmdline) executable on windows. I think it's pointless
> to try to build a smaller git package yourself. Just use the git.exe that
> comes with that package and that's it. In my work computer, I have a msys
> installation that I use for my normal work, but the git.exe comes from that
> very package which additionally has its own msys installation. Apart from the
> large download volume I didn't notice any problems in this setup.
>
> If I have some time during the next days, I'll look into porting the SVN-
> dependencies in our build scripts to using git. Also, I don't think it's
> necessary to distinguish tags that should trigger a build from those which
> don't - we can just as well have *each* tag trigger a rebuild on its own. The
> build server "just" needs a list of tag and SHA1.

Is the switch to git stuck on 1) the sed crash on windows after adding 
git and then 2) porting the build scripts?

Andy


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