I've been using git-svn to check out the source, works fine. On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Dustin Howett <alaricx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why git? Have you guys looked into monotone? > > The choice of Git is not at all a project-level decision, just > something I have personally been thinking about for my Haiku > development. > > I do not know much about monotone, but based on a quick read of their > homepage, it sounds interesting. But I haven't really heard about it > much on the blogosphere, whereas Git and Mercurial seem to be getting > a lot of attention, and Bazaar to a lesser extent. So far I have > really only taken the time to learn about Git, but I am totally sold > on the concept of distributed version control systems (which all the > the above are.) > > It is kind of frustrating that after so many years of dealing with CVS > (which was pretty bad) and Subversion (quite a bit better than CVS, > but still with problems) we now have this glut of open source version > control systems. At least they all are distributed, which as I said > seems to be the way to go in the future, especially for open source > development. > > But the problem comes when you realize the point of these tools is to > work with others, and by choosing a more "popular" tool you have a > greater chance that people will have heard of it or are familiar with > it. Even if another tool is arguably better, if it doesn't have the > popularity you may make it more difficult for other people to work > with you. > > Of course I say this as someone who joined the Ruby community in 2001, > long before it was "cool" because of Ruby on Rails. Then of course > there is Haiku, which is certainly a small minority group (at this > point at least...I think eventually it will blow up as much as or more > than the Ruby community.) > > But I think the choice of a version control system is a different > issue than choosing to be in smaller open source communities. > > So far Git seems nice, it is used by a lot of the projects I care > about: many up-and-coming Ruby projects, Rails is moving to it, and > WebKit has a Git mirror repo as well. Then there are github.com and > gittorius.org, which make it even nicer. > > Maybe once my "honeymoon" with Git is over, I will try to look at > other tools. But I want to use it for a while, see the good and bad > points, and then look at alternatives if I feel motivated. > > Ryan > >