Why not give git a try? (was "Re: [head tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64")

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Tue Jan 25 12:10:59 UTC 2011


On 25 January 2011 11:22,  <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> Diane Bruce <db at db.net> wrote:
>
>> There certainly would not be a chance of putting
>> mercurial or git into base for example.
>
> Completely apart from licensing, another strike against
> mercurial is that it is written in Python, so it couldn't
> go into base unless Python also went into base.

Of course. OTOH, this topic will only become relevant if anyone
notices that Subversion gets committed into base ;)


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