On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Raymond Toy wrote:
< On 1/31/11 1:54 PM, Oliver Kullmann wrote:
< > The talk on git being "complicated" for my understanding results from the fact
< > that some people are involved in rather technical stuff and then forget to
< > abstract away from it when they write about git: for example there was an article
< > in a German Linux magazine for the normal user, the guy wanted to introduce git,
< > but all examples came from the Linux-kernel, with all complications involved etc.
< > --- it was hilarious! So you find overcomplicated presentations of git, but you
< > can just ignore that.
< >
< > It seems to me that git has really overtaken hg.
< Of course, everyone is biased on using what he's familiar with. CVS
< does everything I need it to do wrt to maxima.
<
< Git might be overtaking hg, but hg is probably not going away soon
< either. (I know clisp is moving to hg. Some large, well-known projects
< are using hg such as openJDK, OpenOffice, Octave, ScientificPython, Xen,
< as listed on Mercurial's page.)
<
< Likewise, there are a large number of projects using git, most notably
< the Linux kernel.
Ray, I think there is another factor to consider: what appeals to
younger, talented hackers. On my reading, git is far more appealing
to this group (anecdotal evidence: this past week our phd students
had a self-organised seminar on using git to manage their dissertation
writing--I can't imagine them talking about subversion or mercurial,
though, despite our university officially supporting subversion
'private' repositories).
The Maxima project needs to attract such hackers for its long run health.
Btw, what sort of support will SF provide for moving repos from one rcs
to another?
Leo
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