On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-13 16:20:38 +0100, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:31:26PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > I'm also on the way > > > getting familiar with GIT, doing my very first steps. It would be nice > > > if we'd present what we know in Oldenburg (I already offered to do so, > > > Joey planed it for Saturday). > > > > Sounds like a plan. And maybe present some of the other alternatives > > to CVS as well? > > I'm not sure if it's worth it. Linus decided against all other SCMs. I > did use (for small test projects) monotone, darcs and arch. (I think > all other alternatives aren't.) Have you tried mercurial? > To get fixes/port updates/subsystem updates upstream to Linus, GIT is > the way[tm] to go, so we'd try to get familiar with it. Still using plain patches and email... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds