On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> While I am of the opinion that git is the greatest thing since sliced
> bread, I don't think that it is a good idea to require that people learn
> some VCS they aren't familiar with to contribute to a project.
> 
> E.g. if someone is already familiar with quilt, they can do most of the
> local patch management they need without having to learn git (even if
> the latter is a good idea, it should not be required upfront).

At least one maintainer is using quilt for his(*) work.
He strongly agrees with that.  :)


> In this case, if someone sends a patch series to the list, I don't
> think it should matter which VCS was used to manage that patch series
> during local development.


(*) Not intentionally sexist here ... it just so happens that's
our current contributor base.
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