Re: [Maybe a boring Question] Why not GIT?

[Austin Morton <austinpmorton at gmail dot com>]

Haza! Git has prevailed. All hail torvalds!

On Aug 8, 2013,at 3:43 PM, "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:

> Brock, All,
>
> On 2013-08-08 09:47 +0800, goodmenlinux@gmail.com spake thusly:
>> I found that github has ct-ng dir, but the latest update is 3 years ago.
>> Does this great project has any plan to use GIT?
>> Any comment on it?
>
> Oh... That's been a long time since that one came last...
>
> OK, a bit of history:
>  - first I slightly hacked on the original crosstool (then maintained
>    by Dan Kegel), and there was no repository, only occasional tarball
>    releases
>  - then I hacked a bit more, and that eventually became crosstool-NG
>  - this was done in subversion, since I was really comfortable with it
>  - I eventually reached the limits of svn especially when I witnessed
>    an unrecoverable repository crash twice in a row, with no apparent
>    reason
>  - I looked at the other existing possibilities (circa 2009-07):
>    - cvs? Muahaha!
>    - bazaar: you must be kidding me! ;-)
>    - git: widespread, powerfull, yet very complex to get up to speed;
>      one needs his flight license and 200h in active duty before beinf
>      able to at least land a merge sanely.
>    - Hg: repository set up and live in two hours, with no prior
>      knowledge of a DVCS.
>  - choice made: Hg that was to be.
>
> Now, time has passed, I am now confident in my git abilities (although I
> am far from being an expert). When I get some time, I'll migrate to git,
> but there is n oschedule for this.
>
> Anyway, there exist Hg <-> git converter, and one can even use git to
> work with an Hg repository in the meantime.
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
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