hey all, so we're starting to really use hadoop heavily here at facebook, and we'd like to start contributing back to the hadoop trunk. we've been through this process before (contributing heavily to an actively developed open source project) with memached, and the guy who owns the trunk of that project is quite the SCM nut who says that his life has been made infinitely more pleasant by switching from svn to git for version control with memcached.
i'm not suggesting the project be moved tomorrow. i just wanted to throw the question out there to get a sense of how others feel about git as an SCM tool. i have asked our memcached guy to write up the specific advantages of git versus svn so i will be happy to follow up with details. apologies if this has been brought up before; i've been reading the mailing list on and off now for several months and a quick search of the archives yielded no matches for "git" so hopefully this is a relevant topic. thanks, jeff
