Re: Conversion from SVN to Git

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:55:33 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:

> * Git doesn't work on my obscure $platform (We'd rather fix Git than
> hold off getting away from svn)

I'm not here to complain about the VCS you choose to use, but I am
interested to know why this change is happening.

I may be reading too much into your wording but it sounds like you're
not moving *towards* Git, but *away* from Subversion. I've used
Subversion for a long time and always got on pretty well with it so
I'd be fascinated to know what it is which makes it so abhorrent in
the eyes of the core Netsurf developers. Can you point me at the
discussion where this decision was made?

And why Git in particular. Clearly it's growing in popularity but
there are lots of other options. I'm guessing that the fact that it
is distributed is relevant but why not Arch, Mercurial, DARCS, Bazaar
or even SVK?

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