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 
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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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2006-06-13
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.