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Date:      Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:22:34 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        db@db.net
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why not give git a try? (was "Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64")
Message-ID:  <4d3ea46a.NnLdm55dZduBwzWN%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110124194830.GA70207@night.db.net>
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Diane Bruce <db@db.net> wrote:

> There certainly would not be a chance of putting
> mercurial or git into base for example.

Completely apart from licensing, another strike against
mercurial is that it is written in Python, so it couldn't
go into base unless Python also went into base.

BTW this topic came up on ports@ about 3 months ago:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2010-September/063675.html



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