Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

[Matt McCutchen]

On 10/13/07, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> It seems like GIT is where the mindshare is these days, plus a number of
> the other autotools projects have already migrated (or are in the middle
> of migrating) to GIT, so that's what I'd go with.

> please give me your opinions on this change.

Yes!!!  Git rocks!  It's *the* format for modern source control: git
repositories can be modified, merged, mirrored, and otherwise messed
with in so many useful ways.

> GNU make development is
> currently straightforward enough that the advanced features of GIT
> (advanced merging and peer-to-peer development) aren't critical.

They might not be critical for the main development team, but they are
an enormous boon to others maintaining patches / modified versions
(like potentially me!).  Case in point: rsync and Eclipse are still
using CVS, but I import them into git myself so I can manage patches
with StGIT; if the upstream project uses git, that's even better.

> I don't really know what the current state-of-the-art is WRT GIT on
> non-POSIX systems

Yes, this is the only potential drawback that I can think of.

Matt