Re: debian github organization ?
On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:40:21 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
wrote:
>Iustin Pop <iustin@debian.org> writes:
>> I think the VCS agnosticism is actually detrimental in this context.
>> It's much easier for the user when every repo is using the same VCS.
>> And consistency makes it very easy, for example, to refer to commits
>> across projects, to standardise pull/clone workflows, etc.
>
>+1. VCS agnosticism means you waste a bunch of time making each new
>feature work with every supported VCS, which can include trying to
>shoehorn pretty foreign workflows into the model of some other VCS.
But it leaves a choice to the author. On a VCS-bound system, all
choice you have is to go to a different place.
Thankfully, git is by far the best VCS on the market and the vast
majority of people seem to agree. But imagine the outcry if ten years
ago Sourceforge had said "our VCS is svn and we don't support anything
else".
Greetings
Marc
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