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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: Music for the Martians?
From:       "Anthony W. Youngman" <lilypond () thewolery ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date:       2006-11-29 10:41:10
Message-ID: VmiHLGlGPWbFFw39 () thewolery ! demon ! co ! uk
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In message <B9BF8D79-630A-4BBC-A9C8-37B72D4F65C1@hetnet.nl>, Arjan Bos 
<arjan.bos@hetnet.nl> writes
>When trying to be helpful and create a patch, I noticed that the 
>development switched from CVS to GIT. Why? Now I have to find out what 
>git is, how it works and how to get it. First try Fink as that's  the 
>semi-default package manager on Darwin. It cannot connect to cvs  to 
>update itself. The error message tells me to try again later.  Mmph, 
>only later it still doesn't work. Turns out I have to run an  update 
>script that is almost guaranteed not to work and which should  be 
>babysitted for several hours. Hate.

Maybe because GIT is a lot less work for main developers?

With CVS, HanWen has to keep a "master tree", and every time he updates, 
everyone else has to throw away their development tree, take a copy of 
his master, and merge all their changes back in.

With GIT, when that happens, the other developers simply say "merge all 
HanWen's changes into my tree" - there is NO master tree.

Makes life so much easier as the number of developers starts rising.

Cheers,
Wol
-- 
Anthony W. Youngman - anthony@thewolery.demon.co.uk




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