Xlib moved to git

[Donnie Berkholz]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> I don't know enough about git to say whether it's a good or a bad thing.
> I wonder if it meets the criteria I'd set for a system that I'm not sure
> everyone else would:
> 
> 1) Needs to have usable clients on a wide range of platforms, since we do
>    have people actively using Xorg code on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX,
> HP-UX,
>    CygWin, MacOS X/Darwin, UnixWare and probably a half dozen more that
> don't
>    come instantly to mind.

From what I've heard it's fairly portable already, and I'm sure they'd
happily accept patches for the more oddball OS's.

> 2) Needs to be easily usable across firewalls.   In the case of the
> firewall
>    I deal with, calling an external ssh client as CVS did, works well,
> since
>    I've already got ssh configured with the right socks proxy magic.

Git can use ssh or rsync, besides its own protocol, so things oughta
work fine in that respect.

Thanks,
Donnie

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