Rainer Bauer wrote:
> Thursday, April 30, 2009, 2:28:42 PM, you wrote:
> 
> MS> Following repeated requests to leave CVS behind, the CVS 
> repository has MS> been converted to Git.
> 
> Although I second moving to a DVCS, I wonder why git was choosen.

Because it's a good piece of software, usable and stable.
Maciej likes it. I like it. Perhaps more people like it...

> Personally, I just switched away from git to mercurial [1].

OK, good for you.

> Firstly the command interface is much clearer and

In your opinion, OK.
In my opinion, git has very clear command interface which is very
close to svn.

> secondly git really sucks on windows.

Perhaps, but it works.

Single installer, single click and I have git available in my
Windows command line:

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

For mouse clicking lovers:
http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

or (with Visual Studio extensions)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/

> I planned to write a response to the "CVS (was RPM)" thread adressing
>  this issue, but completely forgot about it.

Life goes on :-)

> In my experience, git is to mercurial what MySQL is to PostgreSQL.

In my opinion, all these descriptions like the one above, like "it
sucks" are meaningless, unless you give details.
However, 1) it's not RCS advocate forum 2)  too late, we have migrated
3) SOCI uses git.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org

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