Re: [Flightgear-devel] GIT

[Christian S. <ch...@il...>]

Martin Spott wrote:

> The FlightGear project has been notoriously behind about getting
> people's source code contributions into CVS - for years. We all know
> the story, it's been the same for years already, no need to repeat it
> here.
> 
> So, in order not to loose the respective contributions over the time,
> such a GIT repo - be it mine or someone else's - makes the perfect tool
> that allows contributors to maintain their changes in a local branch
> while still easily keeping them in sync with the main source tree(s).
> Thus, it will be highly beneficial for the FlightGear project as a
> whole to support these developers by backing an official GIT repo
> instead of letting their enthusiasm fade out in disappointment ....
> 
> Guess why there are there so many private GIT repositories containing
> modified versions of FlightGear source trees !? Please think of it and
> keep up with the times.
> 

Ah, great to hear this from you, Martin. This does BTW not only apply to 
the FG source code, but also to the scenery and flightplans... ;-)

Chris