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Re: Switching to git



On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 17:33, Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
> Is this a Debian-wide decision, or can each subteam go its own way?

each team can decide on its own, but git is very wide accepted within
Debian, which is to be considered when choosing a new VCS to use
(because it presents a lower barrier to attract contributors from
inside Debian, outside contributors is another story).

> Because
> if the latter, then I would much prefer to see debian-python choose a
> Python-based dVCS.  I'm partial to Bazaar, but the upstream Python project
> just converted to Mercurial over the weekend.  Either one would be an
> excellent upgrade from Subversion.

Do the 2 VCDs you mentioned have clear advantage that make then
preferible to git except being Python-based? If so, I think it's a
quite weak reason.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
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