[ros-dev] GIT mirror

Alexander Potashev aspotashev at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 21:46:10 CET 2009


On 15:20 Thu 08 Jan     , Alex Ionescu wrote:
> This is a good article that covers many of my feelings about git:
> http://texagon.blogspot.com/2008/02/use-mercurial-you-git.html

Have you read the comments to that post? ;)
There are a lot of tutorials on Git

> Poor Windows support, VS2008 integration, crappy GUIs,

Yes, that might be true (partly :)). But it works fine on cygwin.

> shitload of binaries

Did you mean "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t"?

You can use only one binary, the dashed commands are deprecated and one
day Git will get rid of them (just use 'git log' instead of 'git-log').
You can probably remove the dashed binaries at all (although, I haven't
tested it).

> being installed, and confusing, complex commands which encourage messing
> with history, doing "ammends" to commits and other weird actions make git a
> totally bad choice for ReactOS development.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
> 



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