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

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Erik & Brett,
given that you both had some long-time hands-on-experience with Maven 
(compared to my third-party recommendation and a short try-out) I agree to 
stay with the current setup.
I had not tested EGit/JGit before, thus I considered them as competing 
products similar to the svn-support in eclipse ;-)
Stefan

On Sunday, July 10, 2011 07:08:05 pm brett lentz wrote:
> 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.
> 
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