Comments on: Scenery Tools GIT Repo Down (Temporarily) https:/2011/10/scenery-tools-git-repo-down-temporarily/ Developer resources for the X-Plane flight simulator Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:32:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: John https:/2011/10/scenery-tools-git-repo-down-temporarily/#comment-3078 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:32:18 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/blog/?p=3763#comment-3078 In reply to sothis.

Laminar’s repos are cvs? Yikes.

The learning curve for a dvcs like git is exaggerated. Improved development tool functionality and efficiency (easy branching and merging, to start) gained from using a dvcs should more than make up for any hassle involved in converting an existing cvs/svn repo.

From an operational perspective, having a dvcs repo with cryptographic hashes to ensure integrity of old commits is valuable. Ask sourceforge and kernel.org which have both been hacked recently.

]]> By: Antonio https:/2011/10/scenery-tools-git-repo-down-temporarily/#comment-3076 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:59:52 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/blog/?p=3763#comment-3076 must see here
http://www.geocontrol2.com/e_index.htm

]]> By: sothis https:/2011/10/scenery-tools-git-repo-down-temporarily/#comment-3000 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:24:57 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/blog/?p=3763#comment-3000 In reply to Ben Supnik.

i can branch my cave paintings 😀

]]> By: Ben Supnik https:/2011/10/scenery-tools-git-repo-down-temporarily/#comment-2999 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:20:11 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/blog/?p=3763#comment-2999 In reply to sothis.

Right – there is one particular developer of the scenery tools code who is adamant and stubborn about using CVS! What a troglodite!

]]> By: sothis https:/2011/10/scenery-tools-git-repo-down-temporarily/#comment-2998 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:13:01 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/blog/?p=3763#comment-2998 In reply to Philipp.

CVS is not there because we think that users might want to use it. It’s there because all (actually a proposition, i don’t really know) developers of Laminar Research are using CVS for daily development. GIT is just here, because I didn’t want to use CVS when I did start working on the scenery tools. This is the reason why we have this unusual setup, and it will last until Ben himself decides to drop the CVS repository. Maybe I’ll have my quantum computer until then 😛

]]> By: Philipp https:/2011/10/scenery-tools-git-repo-down-temporarily/#comment-2997 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:02:20 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/blog/?p=3763#comment-2997 Why this mess with CVS anyway?
Wouldn’t it be more comfortable to just host a git repo on the server, and let users check out either natively via git clone or, if they like working with paleolithic equipment, use git-svn or git-cvsserver on THEIR side? This would definitely save you a lot of trouble on the server side.

]]> By: sothis https:/2011/10/scenery-tools-git-repo-down-temporarily/#comment-2989 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:30:01 +0000 http://www.x-plane.com/blog/?p=3763#comment-2989 It is fixed now, more or less. Changes from the CVS tree will now be incorporated manually into the GIT repository by me. If someone has troubles with the new repository, please drop me a note.

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