OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20684/Perl_5_Completes_Move_to_Git Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:13:35 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Distributed http://osnews.com/thread?341251 http://osnews.com/thread?341251 Distributed version control is the way to go for all large projects imho. It gives everyone all the benefits of version control to maintain local patches on top of the mainline code. It's ideal for developers that want to hack around once in while to fix something that's been bugging them but otherwise don't want to become a big developer with a commit bit.

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. Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ktlc) Comments RE: Distributed http://osnews.com/thread?341374 http://osnews.com/thread?341374
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. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gfolkert) Comments FreeBSD and Git http://osnews.com/thread?341386 http://osnews.com/thread?341386 Rejecting Git because Linus Torvalds wrote it would be some seriously deficient thinking. Besides, this page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/GitConversion, shows that was serious work is or was being done to move Freebsd to a git repository.

Have a look at the CVS vs Git performance comparisons at the bottom of the page. Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bannor99) Comments