On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 04:06, Ken Gunderson <kgund...@teamcool.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 01:49 +0200, Jesus Cea wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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). >> > >> > 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. >
We would need their comments on this of course, but sometimes the reason is really hard to explain. Like, could you give me a "technical reason", to choose between [1] and [2]? Sometimes it's easier to say that it just "feels better", and you need to try both to feel the difference. [1] http://images.wikia.com/absurdopedia/images/1/12/Zaz_968.jpg [2] http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive/2006/06/26-mercedes-benz-cl-class/Mercedes-Benz-CL-Class-5-lg.jpg _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
