[petsc-dev] All petsc-dev users will need to do a reclone of petsc-dev on Tuesday or later

Jed Brown jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Mar 12 10:18:27 CDT 2013


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Tim Tautges <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Though, with the exception of the Jed/Sean types who know the admin-level
> details of git vs. hg, I'd say going from hg to git is analogous to going
> from cvs to subversion.  For those domain scientists who have trouble even
> doing that, I'd recommend graphical tools like Meld or Tortoise to ease the
> transition (although PETSc's directory structure makes Meld especially
> slow).


Matt just started using this and says it's great:

http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

In git core, there is 'gitk' for browsing history and 'git gui' for
preparing commits. More GUIs here:

http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis
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