[oi-dev] Git as a version control system for new OI projects

Joerg Schilling Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Wed Jun 22 20:49:25 UTC 2011


Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 06/22/11 12:04 PM, Jesus Cea wrote:
> > Do you have hard data to support your comment that GIT is more used that
> > HG?. Moreover, in our arena? (OS development, distro creation).
>
> The lead is clearer in the OS develoepment & distro creation arena - the
> Linux kernel and Android fork of it, and the fedora & debian distros all
> use git, I don't know of any major OS other than OpenSolaris that adopted
> hg for the core OS development.

It is interesting to see how many people use git even though git does not keep 
deltas and thus causes big archives.

Jörg

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