Including git in FC?

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 00:41 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:06 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I would like to suggest including "git" in FC.  Why in the Core? 
> > Because in addition to its uses as an SCM, it's also really useful for 
> > managing user configurables since it's an SCM that handles sparse trees 
> > just fine.  Thus, one can have a ~/.git directory and check in the files 
> > one wants to have under control.  However, for this to be useful, git 
> > really needs to be available by default in as many places as possible.
> 
> That still doesn't really mandate it being in Core -- it wouldn't be
> appropriate for the default install, and our default yum configuration
> makes it trivial to install Extras packages.
> 
> Either way, the path for inclusion starts with somebody stepping up to
> maintain git/cogito packages in Extras.
> 

Actually, the path to inclusion in Fedora Extras is almost completed.
Chris White submitted both git-core and cogito for Fedora Extras a few
weeks ago.  I've put git-core into CVS already, and I believe we're just
waiting for Chris to get his sponsorship stuff handled.

See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165833
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165836

josh