Hi guys,

please forgive me if this mail is a sign of ignorance. I am not a regular Pharo user and one of the reasons for this is that I didn't like most of the source management tools around Monticello. Coming from an envy background, it feels like not being ready for prime time. Of course you guys have been proving you can work with these tools quite well, but still I'd be interested in using Pharo in a pure git-based environment, as it most closely resembles some of the most-beloved features of envy.

Over the years there was a lot of work and discussion on filetree, gitfiletree, iceberg, cypress and maybe quite a few other projects that sounded promising and interesting. But I must admit I lost track of what was really done and how far things went in the last years.

So are there any pointers to info material that I could look at to see what the current status of source control in Pharo 5 and Pharo 6 is and/or will be soon?

I am mostly interested in these topics:

• git only - no monticello meta info any more - possible?
  
• tools like merge/diff, committing from within the image
• dependencies within my own project as well as dependencies on external code in - possibly multiple - external repositories
• what is the current "most official" source repository for open source code?
• best practices for managing complex projects and keeping old versions reproducible at any time
• tutorial for git newbies in a Pharo context? (Like, how do I start with a new packege - create folder first and do git init, or start in the image and push into repo later? as I said: beginners' stuff)

Thanks for pointers and help

Joachim