Large projects and decentralized development [LWN.net]

Large projects and decentralized development

Posted Aug 23, 2007 7:59 UTC (Thu) by Wummel (subscriber, #7591)
Parent article: Large projects and decentralized development

I listened to most of Linus' git talk at Google. I remember that he said the reason why KDE did not choose git was that there was no Windows support for it. That might have changed a little, judging from the Wiki Windows page.

But Windows support is still not on the same level as Unix. The wiki page even suggests using CVS when there are only a few Windows developers on the project. That makes me feel that the Windows port is not really serious.

Additionally there are currently no plugins for IDEs such as Eclipse, kdevelop or anjuta. There are plans/feature requests for all of those though. The future might bring a full alternative to Subversion, but right now that is not the case when Subversion is used with Windows or IDEs.

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Large projects and decentralized development

Posted Aug 23, 2007 10:57 UTC (Thu) by ms (subscriber, #41272) [Link]

There are more than one DSCM. Mozilla has recently switched to Bazaar. Then there's Mercurial and Monotone. Darcs is kinda neat too and then there's always Arch/TLA.

Some of these have damn good windows support. Most of them have saner command line interfaces than Git.

Large projects and decentralized development

Posted Aug 23, 2007 10:59 UTC (Thu) by ms (subscriber, #41272) [Link]

Damn, sorry, that's factually wrong. Mozilla went to Mercurial, not Bazaar.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/version_cont...

Large projects and decentralized development

Posted Aug 30, 2007 6:26 UTC (Thu) by biehl (subscriber, #14636) [Link]

There does seem to be a Git Eclipse plugin. Haven't tried it yet, myself

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/EclipsePlugin