Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:40:50 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, db@db.net, ivoras@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why not give git a try? (was "Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64") Message-ID: <xeia1v41cg19.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4d3ea46a.NnLdm55dZduBwzWN%perryh@pluto.rain.com> (perryh@pluto.rain.com's message of "Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:22:34 -0800") References: <AANLkTi=-VsVpXH-549UNuHcNZfBH_YHrN-9JBpgWh4A8@mail.gmail.com> <ihjv30$rmd$1@dough.gmane.org> <20110124183102.GB68940@night.db.net> <AANLkTikXs39MQ4kvM4=thoANn596zTGSB=PfTQ545Fon@mail.gmail.com> <20110124194830.GA70207@night.db.net> <4d3ea46a.NnLdm55dZduBwzWN%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:22:34 -0800, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >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. This argument is actually a bit weak for most of the VCS'es out there (including svn by the way). We don't really *need* to import the full VCS itself into FreeBSD. For instance, Subversion is also not part of the base system. It works fine as a port that people can install. There's really _nothing_ wrong with a VCS that is a port/package. We used to have CVS into the base system as "the official VCS", but this is no longer the case for the subversion repo of src/. IMO this hasn't really caused any major problem with the people who want to check out and patch the source tree.
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