As the topic: Do we have an Amiga port of git?

For those who don't know what it is: It is a version control system like CVS or SVN to keep track of source files in a development project.

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@Deniil715

Why there's so many such systems and why do we need all of them ?

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@Tomppeli

cos many of us use GIT ? :)

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@Tomppeli

Why not ? More the better. Not the latest moment that whole world start to use GIT too offten.

@Deniil
For morphos Tokai already port it: here. And sources of his port are here. Imho can be easy porting from.

But in readme he say:

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WARNING This compiled binary of git 1.6.0.2 for MorphOS is NOT fully working. It works for my needs. It might work for your needs too; but most likely it will fail. But so far noone asked; so I didn't bothered to fix it properly. In any case you can fix it yourself too; if required. :) Christian Rosentreter 13th May 2009

So it some kind of works.

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@Tomppeli

Some source code is stored on GIT, it’s like FTP, you only upload/download revisions, the changes each file is kept so you go back to the previous version, this makes it possible for a team of developers to work on a project.

Whit out GIT you can’t even download the source code.

There are many versions because synchronizing source code is complicated, developers find better ways to do things so a new system is developed.

First it was CVS then someone made SVN and then someone created GIT.

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@Tomppeli

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Why there's so many such systems and why do we need all of them ?

You don't but since GIT is winning hearths and minds of developers (me included) you will one day find a project to part and its repo will live inside GIT.

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I have a mostly working AROS port of git, and if anyone are interested I'd love help to create a unified port to work across all four of AROS, classic AmigaOS, AOS4 and MOS.

I wasn't aware of the MOS port, I'll take a look at it to see if there's anything useful.

I believe most of the changes I've done for AROS would carry over to the others with relatively few changes.

My goal is to eventually try to get these patches accepted upstream into the main git repository if possible.

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@NutsAboutAmiga

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First it was CVS then someone made CVN and then someone created GIT.

You forgot a lot a them, and the first was SCSS and its free equivalent RCS from which CVS inherits. I don't know CVN but I guess it's a typo and you were speaking about SVN.
GIT is a totally different thing (first developed for the Linux kernel development) it's main strength is its ability to be completely decentralized (it is favoring branches use).
Now there are also Mercurial, Bazaar, Darcs only for the most famous (and free) ones, but a lot of other available.

@Tomppeli

Why ? Because it's the way I.T. works: each time a new generation of people comes, it thinks that what previous generation did is bad and dishes all in favor of completely new (and totally unproven, unstable and incomplete) concepts... Revision control softwares doesn't escape this rule.

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@vidarh

Maybe SVN page then ? (i can handle aos4 version of it)

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each time a new generation of people comes, it thinks that what previous generation did is bad and dishes all

Please, show me SCM tools with feature set of GIT, with its speed, tiny footprint, cheap branching, etc. Your statement is correct in some regards when it comes to computer technology, but I don't see it fitting SCM evolution. CSV → SVN → GIT was all about "faster-better-less-buggy".

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unstable and incomplete

Oh boy, you should write to GIT's author and tell him his project is so bad. His name is Linus and he wrote GIT to manage Linux kernel.

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@Tomppeli

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Why there's so many such systems and why do we need all of them ?

Probably because they differ in a number of ways. When using CVS (old and obsolete) or SVN (the successor) you have a central repository (on a server) which each developer commit changes to. With GIT every developer has its own local repository which they commit changes to, and then they will now and then create patches and share with each other. I assume this is nice if you do a lot of work offline.

I personally see no benefit of changing from SVN to GIT at home as it's easier to deal with backups if you have the repository at a single location (i.e. a server with daily automated backups)...

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every developer has its own local repository

My local repository is called a drawer (or a folder on other platforms).

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@kas1e

I'll try to get it uploaded somewhere tonight when I'm off work. And hopefully also do some initial quick changes to remove the most obvious AROS specific bits.

The best would probably be somewhere like Github, as Git is maintained in Git itself so that makes it easy to pull in updates from the main git repository, and they offer (read-only) access via SVN and/or tar archive downloads that can be used to access it until the AOS4 port works.

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@AmiDog

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I assume this is nice if you do a lot of work offline.

Well, I'm "always" online, but local commits are very important. When I work on a feature I like to commit as often as I can, with SVN I had to push every change to server, trigger commit e-mail and make timeline cluttered with "Ooops, -debug".

Now I can commit as many times as I wish, thanks to that I can move or merge, cherry pick or reset any parts of code without annoying other people with certainty that I can backtrack bug I introduced.

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@Tomppeli

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My local repository is called a drawer (or a folder on other platforms).

Are you for real? I hope nobody is paying you for that code.

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I personally see no benefit of changing from SVN to GIT at home as it's easier to deal with backups if you have the repository at a single location (i.e. a server with daily automated backups)...

You can easily do that with git too. "git push" lets you update a remote repository similar to svn commit. I push most my stuff both to a private repository server (really a VM running on my Linux box) and to Github for anything open source.

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I'd like to see it too. I suggested a bounty for it, but like so many others it's in limbo waiting for its time.

http://amigabounty.net/?function=viewproject&projectid=65

uboot for example is a git project. For the AmigaOne uboot update project we used git so we can more easily suggest it back into mainline someday. Denx removed it some months ago as they hadn't seen it compile in ages.

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@vidarh

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"git push" lets you update a remote repository similar to svn commit.

Didn't know that, so I googled, and found this. After reading that I wouldn't dare to use git push...

@Deniil715

I had a look at the source sometime ago with a view to having a having a bash at porting it but came across a fork() that scared me.

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@AmiDog

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Didn't know that, so I googled, and found this. After reading that I wouldn't dare to use git push...

LOL. So, you don't know how to use GIT and just read another guy who can't and based on that extensive research you decided against it.

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