FreeBSD needs Git to ensure repo integrity [was: 2012 incident]

[Ollivier Robert]

According to C. P. Ghost on Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:10:40PM +0100:
> Even if it was BSD licensed, Mercurial has a huge dependency:
> Python; 



> and Git is Perl-based. So neither of them is ideal, IMHO.

Nope, git is almost all C even though some other tools relying on git are in Perl.

> If at all, we'd need a lean and mean distributed SCM program
> like Mercurial or Git, but written in C that we could add to base.
> Any volunteers?

We don't have svn in base either.  Your point?

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