[libxml-devel] Back

[Dan Janowski]

On Jul 3, 2008, at 14:01, Sean Chittenden wrote:

>>>> Before we do that though I was wondering what others thought  
>>>> about of
>>>> switching to Git?
>>>
>>> Well, I know git is the new cool think in town.  But I'm on  
>>> Windows, and
>>> love TortoiseSvn, so I don't have any motivation to move to git  
>>> (lousy
>>> windows support and no gui).  I suppose it was easy to have some  
>>> git/svn
>>> integration thing or some such I could be ok, but just seems like  
>>> extra
>>> work to me for little benefit (its not like there are very many
>>> committers anyway).
>>
>> That's fine. I'm basically neutral on the issue for now. I think it's
>> beyond the "new cool thing" at this point. It's the way the tide is
>> headed. But there is certainly is no rush.
>
> git is demon spawn - don't get sucked into the ill-thought-out fad.   
> Mercurial, imho, is a better way to go and I would be a big  
> proponent of migrating to mercurial if support was available for it  
> on rubyforge (*sends an email asking if/when*).  -sc
>

mercurial is excellent.