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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:05:33 -0400
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To: David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Choosing a distributed version control system
 for PHP
From: gwynne@darkrainfall.org (Gwynne Raskind)

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 19:03, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote:
> Those wanting to use git and git workflows have a disadvantage when we stay with SVN.
> Choosing a VCS happens from time to time and sometimes your favorit is not the winner.
> I personally would love to see PHP moving to hg, but if more people like git more, the
> hg people have to deal with it.

Agreed on both counts.

> The RFC points out that there will be modules. We will _not_ copy the current SVN
> history into one big repo. In fact having everything, pecl, php-src and co in one
> repository does not make sense.

The original plan called for the SVN repo to be split up at some point
in the future, but DVCS gained traction and SVN went without any
attempts by anyone to put a proper workflow of any kind in place.

-- Gwynne