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Re: [cdt-dev] Git plans?

I agree. We need tools to work at least at the same level as CVS tools
in eclipse.

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:28 PM, James Blackburn
<jamesblackburn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use git day to day here to track CDT CVS, it works remarkably well,
> and git's margic merging is a real time saver!
>
> That said I'd be against moving to egit until all the day-to-day
> workflows can be easily and safely accomplished in the IDE.
> To be forced to the command line for merge (for example) would
> introduce a barrier to entry not present for CVS users.  Especially
> for those sat on Windows where native git has traditionally been weak.
>  0.9 may have everything we need andI'm all for being a bleeding edge
> user, but I'd rather we started from a point where the tooling has
> feature parity with CVS.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
>
>
> On 3 June 2010 16:36, Alex Blewitt <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Now that Helios is out of the door, what are the thoughts with regards to
>> migrating to Git?
>>
>> The EGit plugin was released recently, and whilst it shows promise in a
>> number of ways, general case merging is still lacking. There is a plan to
>> have that in September or so with EGit 0.9.x that should have that
>> functionality.
>>
>> It can be used in conjunction with the command line git tools though.
>> However, merge conflicts may not be handled properly in the EGit plugin,
>> which is probably one of the more important use cases.
>>
>> Alex
>>
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