Moving to Git

[takkaria]

Hello all,

Angband is moving to Git. It's been a goal to move to a distributed VCS for some time, but the consensus of active developers is on Git, so that's what we're moving to.

Elly has started some good refactoring/rewriting + unit testing work on the init file parser, so now is the time to move (so that doesn't have to be committed back into SVN as a single patch and we lose valuable history). I've not got the time/energy to set up Trac+git yet, but I will soon. In the meantime, though, the git home of Angband is github:

http://github.com/takkaria/angband

I'll be keeping svn and github in sync for a while, but soon svn will be phased out-- maybe in a month or so (when I get trac+git sorted out).

[d_m]

Awesome!

So just to be clear: as of this moment, anyone who wants to work on Angband can check out the Git repo and ignore SVN?

[Nick]

Nice. With luck we'll be able to do something smart with keeping V and AngbandBase synchronised; all we need is (a) at least one person with a clue and (b) something to actually happen with AngbandBase.

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by d_m

Awesome!

So just to be clear: as of this moment, anyone who wants to work on Angband can check out the Git repo and ignore SVN?

That's right.

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by takkaria

Hello all,

Angband is moving to Git.

For non-coder that doesn't say anything. What is "Git"? How is it any better than old system? How can I get a source/binaries from it?

[Derakon]

From your perspective, you can think of Git as being like having two SVN repositories: one master copy on the remote server, and one local copy on your computer. You can check in changes on your computer without affecting the master, so you can make minor checkins without worrying about breaking things for everyone else. When all of your changes are ready, you can push them to the master.

[fizzix]

So does this mean as soon as we're almost done with changes we get moved to a different .c file?

(this only makes sense to me...here's why: [U] Draebor, the Imp (Violet 'u')
An intensely irritating *git* of a monster...)

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by Timo Pietilä

For non-coder that doesn't say anything. What is "Git"? How is it any better than old system? How can I get a source/binaries from it?

For non-coders it's not that interesting. Basically, the software you use to get the latest development version of the game is called 'git' instead of 'svn', and to get a copy you use 'git clone' rather than 'svn checkout'. For developers, it gives a whole load more flexibility (google 'why use git' to find out more if you're really interested).

[Timo Pietilä]

Originally Posted by takkaria

For non-coders it's not that interesting. Basically, the software you use to get the latest development version of the game is called 'git' instead of 'svn', and to get a copy you use 'git clone' rather than 'svn checkout'. For developers, it gives a whole load more flexibility (google 'why use git' to find out more if you're really interested).

There seem to be "download source" -button in angband git webpage which apparently gives me the current state of the sources. The really latest source. No need to do "git clone", or have any extra programs installed which is better than old svn. Just bookmark the page and get new source whenever you want.

This is minor but it names the file I get a bit weirdly: takkaria-angband-f37b1f0.zip

If you could change that to something more useful, maybe time/date and version it would be nice.

Anyway, from Derakon explanation I can see how this is improvement, more flexibility in tweaking before releasing to wider community.

[SaThaRiel]

Great news - i thought about some time to ask if someone would mind switching to git
Archlinux User Repository Package made using git. The svn package is marked as out-of-date. Seems that just 2 ppl (well, one besides me) using the dev version but there maybe more