FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 19 13:05:17 UTC 2012
on 18/11/2012 16:17 Chris Rees said the following:
> On 18 November 2012 14:04, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 18 November 2012 02:48, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> What you describe is not a workflow issue, but a local development
>>> environment(s) setup issue.
>>
>> Which is a workflow issue.
>>
>> I mean, we could bang heads on semantics for hours on end, or we can
>> realise that git isn't a magic bullet for FreeBSD development.
>
> Also... did I mention git is GPL?
Yes, you did, twice now.
I do not see any relevance of Git license to FreeBSD's choice of SCM solution.
But, of course, I am not:
a) a zealot
b) proposing Git (or Subversion, or Mercurial) to be bundled with a base system
--
Andriy Gapon
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