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

[Ken Gunderson]

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 01:49 +0200, Jesus Cea wrote:
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> On 22/06/11 22:28, Alan Coopersmith 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).
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> > 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.
> 
> I know I should phrase my arguments more carefully... Lets say that I
> don't expect that many hackers working on Linux are going to migrate to
> OpenIndiana/Illumos just because we change to GIT.
> 
> Anyway, as Garret has said, this is a religious debate. If nobody can
> prove than migrating to GIT would improve "something", the Status-Quo
> must/should prevail.

Given that OS development was on Hg, I'd be very interested in Joyent's
arguments/reasons for choosing git.  As I think it's safe to assume that
decision was not undertaken lightly, and that Git likely scratched an
itch that Hg would/could not, such analysis could be quite illuminating
regarding Hg's shortcomings.

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Regards-- Ken Gunderson