OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21178/GNOME_Desktop_Project_Migrates_to_Git Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:01:58 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Nice new front end? http://osnews.com/thread?354520 http://osnews.com/thread?354520 Perhaps now we'll get a nice new Gnome/GTK2 frontend to git. I think I tried every front end out there, and although they were all lacking, only QT offerings were even considerably usable. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gent) Comments RE: Nice new front end? http://osnews.com/thread?354523 http://osnews.com/thread?354523 Throwing away existing work and rewriting the same thing over and over again is not very useful. Try

http://live.gnome.org/giggle

File request for enhancements if necessary. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments Android and a Git wrapper app http://osnews.com/thread?354530 http://osnews.com/thread?354530 Google's Android uses Git too and you can find on their open source site a wrapper around Git that simplifies the complex projects' commits. The Gnome project might find it useful exactly because it has many smaller projects too in it, like Android. It is called "repo".
http://source.android.com/download/using-repoEdited 2009-03-23 13:04 UTC Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments totally makes sense http://osnews.com/thread?354534 http://osnews.com/thread?354534 ESPECIALLY for open source projects, it makes no sense to use svn anymore. The question nowadays for what to use for SCM shouldn't be svn or a DCVS, it should be mercurial or git.

As linus said in his famous talk, if you dont like git you are ugly and stupid. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments RE: totally makes sense http://osnews.com/thread?354540 http://osnews.com/thread?354540 ...or bzr. I have to make some benchmarks. I know it was veeeeery slow compared with mercurial or git (especially the later)... but who knows who the "fight" is going these days. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eantoranz) Comments RE[2]: totally makes sense http://osnews.com/thread?354543 http://osnews.com/thread?354543
...or bzr. I have to make some benchmarks. I know it was veeeeery slow compared with mercurial or git (especially the later)... but who knows who the "fight" is going these days.


Frack bzr, what projects use it that haven’t been forced to when moving to launchpad?
Unless Canonical see that git has become the defacto dvcs for projects, we’re going to have a them and us approach to Linux development. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Beta) Comments RE[3]: totally makes sense http://osnews.com/thread?354546 http://osnews.com/thread?354546 Who forced to move launchpad in the first place? Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tomasz Dominikowski) Comments RE[4]: totally makes sense http://osnews.com/thread?354553 http://osnews.com/thread?354553 No one of course - except that you’re required to use bzr if you want code hosted there.

Know of any other bzr hosters like github/gitorious? Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Beta) Comments RE[5]: totally makes sense http://osnews.com/thread?354560 http://osnews.com/thread?354560 Well.... I know from the newsletter I got from sf that they will add bzr support (and git as well... if I'm not wrong).

Anyway.. plugins can make up the "glue" if a project is not using bzr yet you want to use it.... so I don't think it's such a hurdle anyway. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eantoranz) Comments Great to see... http://osnews.com/thread?354637 http://osnews.com/thread?354637 Really good to see this happen! I'm sold on Git myself, and that increasingly seems to be the view of many projects too. Its simplicity and power are finding favour with an increasing number of users. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (obsidian) Comments RE[5]: totally makes sense http://osnews.com/thread?354646 http://osnews.com/thread?354646
Know of any other bzr hosters like github/gitorious?


Anyone with an apache/lighttpd/whatever server. You can bzr pull from anywhere through http, Bzr code hosting doesn't require anything else than SSH or a regular web server. (and if you want to be fancy, I guess you can slap Loggerhead on it)

Now, probably that git and mercurial can do this too. I just thought I'd mention that this whole idea of needing launchpad/sourceforge/google code/savannah/github to actually host your project's code seems moot to me. In my case, I simply push my stuff in http://code.ecchi.ca and anyone can pull from it. Just my 2¢. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kiddo) Comments RE[2]: totally makes sense http://osnews.com/thread?354756 http://osnews.com/thread?354756 Bzr is quite a bit faster these days than before; try the most recent version (http://bazaar-vcs.org). Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kfogel) Comments