From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Esko Luontola Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Version Control Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 08:34:19 +0300 Message-ID: <4A0A5BDB.9030602@gmail.com> References: <419AD153-53B4-4DAB-AF72-4127C17B1CA0@gmail.com> <20090512151403.GS30527@spearce.org> <4A09E719.4090205@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Shawn O. Pearce" To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 13 07:34:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M4770-0003p2-Gn for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 13 May 2009 07:34:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751948AbZEMFe3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 01:34:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751436AbZEMFe3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 01:34:29 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f176.google.com ([209.85.219.176]:47960 "EHLO mail-ew0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214AbZEMFe2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 May 2009 01:34:28 -0400 Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so528481ewy.37 for ; Tue, 12 May 2009 22:34:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=7M3/mMUf3+4QniRa/9Pp+65MdrvKkjiiFfCde7oOp9s=; b=rbSuG9P1rIYohDdrcTpdRekrlqnEReXzUKtzoY77+apc7ohkxwhgBt3VApq6hsxr4n Mj9rVtFw24xQvppThAYLOd4dBv6a8OrDbnQgol2EnHQj5wK6xBwDjCTqgFtP8FwQvbT6 cHZ36E9fVbkING/KzjQHsfCyI1i2ltKhdq1QY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lVLAZFm949XewNdqzkCeC35dwhsdgXwrl7wWE+Tdntz4DkR5z1jmK4efnlhrTi83fb HE41ZXgj1MBskoaTypmhB5jVB1dnYBUuRB2YGquRtCYYOnbuka5Jifu1uLYBvGkZ+GoV INz6nxoxceJ2Cq2LyKsAWnSBUmH/9nA1a4qyg= Received: by 10.210.43.11 with SMTP id q11mr144217ebq.37.1242192867824; Tue, 12 May 2009 22:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.2? ([88.195.117.100]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm748351eyg.34.2009.05.12.22.34.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 12 May 2009 22:34:27 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin wrote on 13.5.2009 3:23: > Well, that rather settles things, no? > There is need for the feature, but it's unfortunate that the Git developers do not see its value. There are many users for whom using non-ASCII names is necessary (for example all of Asia and most of Europe), but now it seems that Bazaar is the only DVCS that handles encodings correctly: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/829682/what-dvcs-support-unicode-filenames Let's see if I have time later this or next year to work on it. At least it would be good practise in getting acquainted with a new codebase and learning C. But it would be better for someone else do it, to get it done within a reasonable amount of time. I see that there are some tests in the /t directory. Which command will run all of them, how good coverage do the tests have, how reproducable and isolated they are, how many seconds does it take to run all the tests? Is there some high-level documentation for new developers? -- Esko Luontola www.orfjackal.net