[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 15.03.2015 um 15:11 schrieb vfclists .:
> Somehow all this indifference to Git bothers me because it seems they are ignoring the greater
> realities of life. If a new generation are going to get involved with FPC and Lazarus development,
> and the main developers are really concerned with all the time and effort they put into this great
> product not going to waste when they retire then they ought to reconsider the indifference or
> aversion to Git. 

Luckily enough, this is an automatism. As soon as somebody pops up and does e.g. repository
maintainance, fixes branch merging etc. and volounteers to work on switching the whole FPC
infrastructure to git, this will happen. Since this is a lot of really tedious work, it will be
probably take another couple of decades especially as anybody really used to git can use it already
flawlessly with git-svn. Ever wondered how Jonas can commit hundreds of changesets within a few
minutes ;)?

> 
> Now Florian, considering your preference for GUI tools, won't the development of cross platform Git
> GUI surpassing Tortoise Git, Github and Atlassian's tools, SmartGit and whatever be the best advert
> for Lazarus and FPC? 

In a world with unlimited resources and time? Maybe.

> There would such a major flow of patches coming in that you would have to stop
> coding actively and review the patches going in like Linus does.

For sure not my aim, actually, if I had only to review patches, I would quit to work on FPC or whatever.