From kde-core-devel  Thu Jul 12 12:29:25 2007
From: Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:29:25 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE development with git
Message-Id: <26126FF1-1634-4678-9888-D1A10E04CA94 () meyerhome ! net>
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On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>>> That is actually not correct. There is a maintained mingw port of  
>>> git
>>> that works very well. (I am using it myself for the bits of Qt
>>> development I do on Windows)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for this pointer. The information i had where from
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29#Portability
>>
>> A native Microsoft Windows port using MinGW
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW> is approaching completion,^ but
>> there is more work to be done, including handling of CRLF
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRLF> line endings.^ Porting Git to
>> Windows is difficult due to a number of architecture issues.
>
> CRLF seems to be now actually solved too.
>
> But this is exactly my point: all of this is *recent* development.  
> That
> means git is coming to the point where KDE could switch to it. In  
> turn,
> that means we can't switch to it right now.

The spirit of the thread wasn't about switching all of KDE, but  
providing a place for developers to try out git and still be in  
kde.org land.

-Benjamin Meyer