On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:37 +0000, Iain Buclaw wrote: > [ . . . ] > > What do we have to do with this? I don't think we have much to gain from > moving > > to git. It's not likely to have much effect on the level of interest > people have > > towards contributing anyway. > > If you are currently using Subversion then there is masses to be gained > by moving to Git in line with the rest of the D development effort. > > I guess GCC itself is still Subversion? > > Bazaar is a GNU project, and this tipped the balance such that Emacs was > pushed to shift from Subversion to Bazaar. The change caused a lot of > heated aggravation between the Bazaar, Mercurial and Git advocates. > Normal then ;-) > > I don't know which direction the GCC crew would go, but I guess GDC > needs to ensure it is compatible -- though Git, Mercurial and Bazaar can > always work with a Subversion repository, Bazaar in a much smoother DVCS > way that the other two. > > > I could ask around, they'd probably tell me to fork off though. 8-) > > Or they might say "about forking time" ;-) GDC is currently on Mercurial on Bitbucket.
