Re: [Rails-devel] Idea: migrating away from cvs.

[brett l. <wak...@gm...>]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
>        1.  Test out the Git plugin for Eclipse. If the UI is similar enough
>        to the CVS integration, we'll go with Git.
> -------------
>
> [EV] While reading around on Git an Egit, the following worried me:
>
>          Pulling (merge or rebase) new changes from upstream
>
>        This is not yet available. Available alternatives currently include:
>
>            * run "git pull" from outside eclipse (but beware on Windows)
>            * if you did no local change or want to discard your local
> changes, use "Team/Reset To..."
>
>        Retrieved from "http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide/Remote"
>
> Does this mean that Egit (the Eclipse plugin) has no equivalent for CVS
> update from a remote repository?
> That would rule it out for me. I don't want to be condemned to use the
> (Windows) command line.
>
> For the rest, I don't care for the distributed model - I don't see why I
> would need a local repository.
> But I trust you if you say that it can be easily bypassed.
>
> Erik.
>
>

wow... that's a major part of the git work flow that they haven't
implemented.  i'm kind of surprised by that.

---Brett.