Re: Distributed SCM in Gnome (Was: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?))

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:05 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 debian org> wrote:
> > Le dimanche 16 septembre 2007 �9:42 +0200, Vincent Untz a �it :
> > > Le samedi 15 septembre 2007, �1:44 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a �it :
> > > > Ok, lets be fair:  most people who care about hacking on GNOME already
> > > > know git, why should other options be selected?
> > >
> > > I don't think it is fair to state this. A lot of people certainly care
> > > about hacking on GNOME and don't know git (and don't care about it).
> >
> > I think Vincent is right there, looks like some people are using git and
> > trying to make it look like that's the case for everybody else in the
> > GNOME world which is not correct
> 
> To be fair, if my guess is right that low-level GNOME hackers are
> highly correlated with git users (and anti-correlated to usage of
> other SCM systems)[1], then it may well have seemed to Behdad that
> this was in fact the case, as he is most likely to interact
> development wise with his fellow low-level hackers.

Yep, most probably.  Didn't want to cheat.  I corrected myself in a
follow-up.  All I'm saying is that in all the various threads about this
issue this past couple of weeks, we've seen many pro-git hackers, but
not as many pro-others.

But I particularly think your low-level vs higher-level separation is
very real.  Which leads me to think that there's no reason why all GNOME
modules have to live in the same kind of repository.

> Again, just some food for thought.
> 
> Elijah
> 
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00195.html

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