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Re: bzr is unmaintained. Should we move KiCAD repository to git too?

 

Hi, I'm new to the developer list for KiCAD. First off, great work, love
where this project is going and I would love to help contribute. With that
being said I would also put my vote in for GIT to encourage newer
generations of developers.

Tim


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Ouabache Designworks
> <z3qmtr45@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > My experience has been that any code worth writing will long outlive
> > whatever rcs system that you are using. Expect to have to do this on a
> > regular basis
> >
> >
> > John Eaton
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:08 AM, Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> This discussion springing up on emacs-devel is likely relevant:
> >>
> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00005.html
> >>
> >> On 2 December 2013 04:51, Povilas Kanapickas <povilas@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Just for the record, git has submodules feature, which allows to store
> >> > external dependencies in-tree and easily manage local patches to them.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Povilas
> >> >
> >> >
>
> I've mentioned this on another thread but I'd like to re-iterate that
> I've tried to contribute to kicad but found bzr workflows to be very
> difficult to wrap my head around. I'm very familiar with cvs/svn/git
> though so I'd welcome a switch to git. Because git is so widely used
> now it may also make it easier for others to contribute.
>
> Chris
>
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