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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:15:56 +0100
From:      Juraj Lutter <otis@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git tools for building in base?
Message-ID:  <1FD6AC93-8BDA-4242-9D8C-74425612D3CC@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <10f7b800-b015-2a80-b741-4f7db03bf6eb@quip.cz>
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> On 18 Dec 2020, at 14:02, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
>=20
> On 25/11/2020 06:54, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>=20
>> NetBSD users face a similar problem with their upcoming switch from =
cvs to hg (Mercurial).
>=20
> Do anybody have a link to some documents stating why FreeBSD chose Git =
and why NetBSD chose Mercurial? I am using both tools at $WORK, I am =
just curious what leads to these decisions.

Joerg Sonnenberger had a talk about it:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/netbsd_and_mercurial/

At NetBSD it is not that straightforward:
  - git is used for pkgsrc-wip
  - src, xsrc and pkgsrc are in CVS and there are *plans* to move to hg,
    but there are no fixed deadlines when this will be done.

otis



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