Git support

[William McKenzie]

Anybody managed to setup EA to use Git as a version control system? I've seen some things that look like an SCC provider for Git, but I thought I'd check to see if somewhat had already done it.

[g.makulik]

There's a number of technical reasons why collaborative VCS like git or mercury aren't suitable as underlying system for EA's version control. The primary reason is that there's no system wide lock feature available.
There's a number of threads in the forum explaining this in more depth.

HTH
Günther

[William McKenzie]

Yes, thanks, I did a little experimenting this morning, and it became clear that the entire concept of locking packages would not suit a DVCS well. It does seem relatively easy to manage the XMI files externally to EA through GIT, though merging would be pretty difficult.

thanks,
~Bill

[g.makulik]

Yes, exactly! Merging XMI on a textual base won't be possible correctly. May be using some XSLT merge could do the job, but I'm afraid that would be a rather complex XSLT script.

Best regards,
Günther