Re: [Rails-devel] Are we ready for Git?

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

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stefan Frey [mailto:ste...@we...]
>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:42 PM
>> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
>> Subject: Re: [Rails-devel] Are we ready for Git?
>>
>> Erik & Brett,
>> I am up for that move. Do you recommend JGit or Egit?
>>
>
> AFAIK you need both (in Eclipse).
>

Correct.

JGit is the java git implementation.
EGit is the eclipse plugin built on top of JGit.

>> I am wondering if you would consider to move to a maven  build at the same
>> time. Ideally by changing to the maven recommended repo layout.
>
> Dunno. Brett is handling the builds (I only run either from Eclipse Run or
> from the published Rails jars).
>
> I hardly know anything about Maven. In the past I have been half-involved
> with some (old) projects that used Maven, and perhaps some other stuff.
> What I remember about these projects was the ubiquitous presence of pom.xml
> files that did not mean anything to me (I wasn't really interested either -
> it worked). So I'm blank.
>

I deal with Maven at my day job, and I'm not a fan. Perhaps as Maven 3
matures, it will improve in crucial areas. Right now, I really dislike
the way it handles dependency resolution, among other things.


> Perhaps we'll better restrict ourselves to one major step at a time?
>

Agreed.

> One thing on our Git repo that I have struggled with yesterday is that it
> seems to require that the .git directory would exist at the same level as
> all project directories (game, tile, data etc.).  I was trying to get these
> directories below a src directory on the same level as .git (under the
> project root), but failed  to get there. Not really a problem, but perhaps
> noteworthy.
>
> Erik.
>
>

---Brett.