[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] FFmpeg "developers conference"

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:00:20PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > 
> > Of course there will still be a central repository if/when we move to
> > git.
> 
> What prevents us from moving to git currently? I can migrate swscale to
> ffmpeg quite easly if that was the problem, the recipe is simple:
> 
> import mplayer to git, import ffmpeg to git.
> 
> in mplayer make a branch and remove everything that isn't libswscale,
> prune to clean up and commit this change.
> 
> in ffmpeg make a branch and git pull the libswscale-only branch from the
> mplayer repo.
> 
> Commit the change.
> 
> That's all, the story is preserved and ffmpeg has a coherent tree.

Sounds like a hack to me.  As I said before, I can produce a Subversion
repository with libswscale (and not the rest of MPlayer) properly
interleaved in it.  Did I mention already that Subversion has
good administration tools?

Diego