On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:11:00 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/27/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > You may like trying to force GPL onto the app but many apps are >> > stuck with the license they have and can't be changed since there is >> > no way to contact the original developers. >> >> At this point, git-shortlog lists exactly 200 people (at least entries >> like Unknown or No name are all linux@xxxxxxxxxxx ;-). > > Inability to integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio is going to have a > lot of impact on the cross platform use of git. Could you stop with the histrionics please? > Is a conscious > decision being made to stop this integration or is this just unplanned > side effect of the original license? If this is an unplanned side > effect, the quicker we move, the easier it is to fix. So, using CVSNT (a GPL'd SCCI provider) and git-cvsserver would be a way to continue. I'm assuming that the primary functionality they want via their IDE is checkout/diff/commit/log. Quite a lot of Windows developers have no problems using multiple tools for things, I'd assume they would also be able to use any existent port of git (to Windows) to do the esoteric things like branching/bisect/etc. Anand - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html