linux-kernel - Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

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Date:	Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:06:22 +0100
From:	Jakub Narebski <jnareb@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	git@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:20:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

>> BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of
>> surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old
>> git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it
>> would help people to try out and find wrinkles before the real
>> thing for me to cut a tarball and a set of RPM packages.
>> 
>> Comments?
> 
> Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly
> increase the number of testers. Hint: how often do you try random
> software that requires that you first install CVS, SVN or arch just to
> get it, compared to how often you try random software provided as tar.gz ?
> Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should
> get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new doc a
> real trial, and will help discover traps in which beginners often fall.

RPMS are nicely divided into (sub)packages, so you need CVS indtalled
only if you install git-cvs package, for example to interact with CVS.
git-core has minimal dependencies.

To compile git you truly don't need other software installed (1.5.0
for example does not require RCS anymore for RCS merge).
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git


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