[squeak-dev] Subversion

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Jul 3 15:43:37 UTC 2008


>>>>> "Bert" == Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> writes:

Bert> Agreed, although git is rather Linux-centric, so Hg might be a better  choice
Bert> for a cross-platform system like Squeak.

What makes you think git is Linux-centric?  I've worked hard for the last two
years to be "the canary in the coal mine" whenever Git failed to work on OSX
and OpenBSD, and the git developers have been *very* responsive.  In fact,
some of the core developers are now exclusively on Macs. :)

The only place git still doesn't feel "at home" is Windows, where it
has to run under some unix-layer on windows (not familiar with this,
so I'm not explaining it well).

However, for flexibility and raw speed, git is hard to beat, especially at
branching and merging, which is the point of having a distributed SCM.

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