A Proposal to Move to Git

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>:

> ...  It's slow; updating a tree takes significantly more time
> than with cvs as it insists that I stash my local changes first. 

That's only the case if you have local changes in a file that will be
overwritten by upstream changes.

> It's buggy; I had it just sit there and spin forever on a git pull on
> several occasions.

Hm... what version of git are you using, on what platform?

> It encourages the annoying "send the gazillian diffs in a series
> again, just because I've fixed a single spelling mistake in one of
> them" behaviour.

That's sounds really strange.  Do you rebase, rather than merge?