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With a bunch of breaking API changes ahead of me and no intention to get into CVS merge hell (using my own branch for the changes), I decided to give git a test spin. Others have blogged about it already and it appears as if the foundation is looking into the issue already but have postponed a decision until next year.
So I did like Andy has done before me and created a git mirror of ECF’s CVS with git-cvsimport. I’ll report back in a while how things work out with Egit (soon at Eclipse.org) and git <> CVS.
If people are interested to use the git repo, we’d need to figure a way to make the master available at ecf2.osuosl.org.

By: Markus Alexander Kuppe | 2008/12/23 | eclipse | trackback | comments [rss 2.0]

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  1. markus
    Comment by markus | 2008/12/23 at 23:52:34

    FWIW the repo is updated/synced with CVS every 15 min.

  2. markus
    Comment by markus | 2008/12/24 at 00:11:42

    http://github.com/guides/using-the-egit-eclipse-plugin-with-github how to configure git and setup the workspace.

  3. Antoine
    Comment by Antoine | 2008/12/24 at 02:19:22

    Of course you cannot push changes the changes from the git repo to the CVS repo. That would break the IP tracability of your contributions.

  4. markus
    Comment by markus | 2008/12/24 at 10:51:07

    Antoine, are you referring to the case where I pull other people’s patches into my master (accepting contributions)? Or “just” about the case where each and every line is written by myself as a committer? The former bears no discussion while the latter seems unproblematic (to me).

    To clarify I don’t wanna move a way from CVS but am simply been looking for an easy way to do bigger refactorings without screwing with HEAD. And after using ClearCase UCM for a while, one is pretty much used to having private streams. :-)

    [1] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/ip-process-in-cartoons.php

  5. Pascal
    Comment by Pascal | 2008/12/27 at 16:53:16

    Given that you are a committer on ECF, what is the advantage the git based approach you are proposing over creating a CVS branch?


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