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

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 15.03.2015 um 15:40 schrieb 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 ;)?

... not to mention that I am using also git-svn sometimes as a "patch
manager" for FPC development (drawback: around 60 private branches with
some nice stuff, wouldn't happen with svn ;)). Nevertheless I see no
point in using git as FPC's main repository so far.