first git commit

[Andrew Wiley]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk>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.
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