On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Justin Haygood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhaygood@reaktix.com">jhaygood@reaktix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Meyer" <<a href="mailto:ben@meyerhome.net" target="_blank">ben@meyerhome.net</a>><br>
To: "WebKit Development" <<a href="mailto:webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org" target="_blank">webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org</a>><br>
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 11:25 PM<div class="im"><br>
Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Git Familiarity (was ChangeLog)<br>
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At least on Windows I use mysygit myself (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/</a> ) From the project description: "Historically, Git on Windows was only officially supported using Cygwin. To help make a native Windows version, this project was started, based on the fork."<br>
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Still has the following problems:<br>
1. No Windows integrated UI. Windows is very UI driven, and all of the development tools are UI based. Why should I open up a command line to do VCS stuff? I don't have to open up a command line now.<br>
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2. No Visual Studio integration. Subversion not only has TortoiseSVN, but there's AnkhSVN that lets you manage it entirely inside Visual Studio.</blockquote><div><br>The official instructions for getting and building WebKit involve things run from the command prompt. I agree that there are plenty of Windows based developers who would not be comfortable using a command line, but I find it hard to believe that there are many hacking on WebKit. And, if they are, they're probably savvy enough to write MSVC++ macros.<br>
<br>For what it's worth, I support switching to git. It certainly will be painful for some, but I think it'll be a win before long. That said, I also think Maciej is right and that there are some bigger fish to fry at the moment.<br>
<br>J<br></div></div>