OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Rahul on Mon 22nd Dec 2008 22:28 UTC

The Git distributed source code management system has won over another major project, Perl 5. The Perl Foundation has announced that they have completed moving the source code of Perl 5 from Perforce (proprietary SCM in use by other projects including FreeBSD) to Git and are now opening the system up for developer use. Git is the open sourced source code control system created by Linus Torvalds to manage Linux development. The move to Git gives developers equal and easier access to the Perl source code and the distributed nature of git will allow developers to work on experimental changes to the language more easily.

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RE: Distributed

by gfolkert on Wed 24th Dec 2008 11:24 UTC in reply to "Distributed"

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FreeBSD recently moved to Subversion and I just don't understand why they went through all the trouble of switching VCS and then didn't get a distributed one.

If I recall correctly(so I could be wrong here), mainly because Git is a pet project of Linus Torvalds. There was also discussion of its long term viability and frothing on the reasons it was made in the first place.

At least FreeBSD didn't goto all that trouble and switch CVS. Not that CVS is bad, just that IMO it isn't exactly a step I'd take.

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