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Date:      Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:10:52 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Subject:   Re: Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base) 
Message-ID:  <26382.1141384252@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:33:51 %2B0530." <84dead720603030303p122ea0efn892bf9ffd32fce41@mail.gmail.com> 

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In message <84dead720603030303p122ea0efn892bf9ffd32fce41@mail.gmail.com>, "Jose
ph Koshy" writes:
>phk> Considering how much stuff a change of vcs would affect, just think
>phk> about all the scripts and routines the committers have on their
>phk> development computers, a significantly better reason than "it is
>phk> prettier" is required.
>
>A 'distributed' VCS with good support for branching and merging would
>ease the work of our non-committer volunteers.

I'm sure that there are many sound arguments for switching to one
or the other vcs, but the crucial test is: are the arguments good
enough to make the disruption and hazzle worth it.

So far I have not heard anything which comes even close to meeting
that threshold...

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
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