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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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