Re: specify preferred revision control

[Damjan Zemljič <zrubish gmail com>]

Hi Kai,
sure it is. I've never noticed it! Sorry :}

Thanks a lot for the work done!

Cheers,
Damjan

On 07. 02. 2014 10:51, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> On 7 February 2014 18:41, Damjan Zemljič <zrubish gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I don't know how to effectively check the topics discussed till now within
> > the mailing lists, therefore, please apologize and point me to the thread
> > covering that already.
> >
> > The question / proposal:
> > I'm using meld mostly from command line (no arguments). It's great. But
> > recently, I'm forced to use SVN (remote repositories), but on the other
> > having GIT freedom at the same time on the same code worked upon would make
> > me even happier. Unfortunately, there is no way to tell meld which RCS
> > should prefer. I guess that shouldn't be too much effort to add it, or?
> >
> > Maybe just to be explicit and clear of what I'd like to do:
> > svn co ... Foo
> > cd Foo
> > git init .
> > git add .
> >
> > ...
> > use git & meld doing smaller steps,
> > ... satisfied with the results...
> >
> > svn commit...
> >
> > GIT and SVN can coexists on the same code without the problems. But only
> > command line is available, no fancy Meld tool.
> If I understand correctly, this is already how Meld works. We have a
> hard-coded preference order for VCSes, with distributed first, so Meld
> should do what you want already? You can select which VC to use with
> the drop-down in the top-right corner if the default selection isn't
> what you wanted.
>
> cheers,
> Kai