On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 01:49 +0200, Jesus Cea wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 22/06/11 22:28, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > On 06/22/11 12:04 PM, Jesus Cea wrote: > >> Do you have hard data to support your comment that GIT is more used that > >> HG?. Moreover, in our arena? (OS development, distro creation). > > > > The lead is clearer in the OS develoepment & distro creation arena - the > > Linux kernel and Android fork of it, and the fedora & debian distros all > > use git, I don't know of any major OS other than OpenSolaris that adopted > > hg for the core OS development. > > I know I should phrase my arguments more carefully... Lets say that I > don't expect that many hackers working on Linux are going to migrate to > OpenIndiana/Illumos just because we change to GIT. > > Anyway, as Garret has said, this is a religious debate. If nobody can > prove than migrating to GIT would improve "something", the Status-Quo > must/should prevail.
Given that OS development was on Hg, I'd be very interested in Joyent's arguments/reasons for choosing git. As I think it's safe to assume that decision was not undertaken lightly, and that Git likely scratched an itch that Hg would/could not, such analysis could be quite illuminating regarding Hg's shortcomings. -- Regards-- Ken Gunderson _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev