Hi, On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Marcin Kasperski wrote: [BTW: who said the following? You skipped that information.] > > So I don't think it's even true that new people should be pointed at cg > > any more. > > Google points to git.or.cz ;-) How does Google point to something? You mean the last time you ran the search, the top find _for you_ was git.or.cz? > > But compare setting up a git repository with setting up a CVS > > repository. With git, it's literally "git init", and you're done. No > > need to worry about CVSROOT issues etc. Everything is self-contained. > > CVS is *hard* to get into, by comparison. > > I am in no way advocating CVS, but to be fair in such comparison, one > should mention also effort of *publishing* git repository and making it > available to remote clients. Initialized and configured CVS (or > subversion, or perforce, or ...) repo is something ready to be used by > remote clients. No. Not at all. It took me _one day_ to publish my first CVS repository. It took me exactly 10 seconds to do that with Git. If you are referring to readily-usable CVS services like sourceforge's, you are comparing apples with sentences. > Getting correct ssh keys in correct places is - for instance - > noticeable problem for many people. Especially if they use clients > (like plink) which natively use alternative key save format. Etc... I fail to see how you need ssh keys in order to publish a Git repository. > I agree that git introduces plenty of excellent concepts. What it needs > is better docs (also, clearly known **SINGLE** master doc, just sth like > subversion book), Does that mean you are volunteering? > cleaned command line interface (I feel that there are > just too many lowlevel commands visible for beginning user, maybe at > least one could split them into git-* for mere mortals and gitadm-* for > repository hackers), Does that mean we can expect patches from you? > portability, Which platform are you having in mind? > and finally GUI. Does that mean you will provide patches? A good starting point is git-gui, IMHO. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: 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