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    SubjectRe: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2
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    Willy Tarreau wrote:
    > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:20:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

    >> BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of
    >> surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old
    >> git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it
    >> would help people to try out and find wrinkles before the real
    >> thing for me to cut a tarball and a set of RPM packages.
    >>
    >> Comments?
    >
    > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly
    > increase the number of testers. Hint: how often do you try random
    > software that requires that you first install CVS, SVN or arch just to
    > get it, compared to how often you try random software provided as tar.gz ?
    > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should
    > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new doc a
    > real trial, and will help discover traps in which beginners often fall.

    RPMS are nicely divided into (sub)packages, so you need CVS indtalled
    only if you install git-cvs package, for example to interact with CVS.
    git-core has minimal dependencies.

    To compile git you truly don't need other software installed (1.5.0
    for example does not require RCS anymore for RCS merge).
    --
    Jakub Narebski
    Warsaw, Poland
    ShadeHawk on #git


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