Re: Official GCC git repository

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>]

> I could never understand why anyone would use anything but CVS (if that
> works for them), or git. The VCS-du-jour craze just confuses me.

I could understand a lot why people would use subversion and not CVS. 
Not that I like subversion a lot (the trunk/branches/tags system seems a 
bit ad-hoc for example, though I must admit it works great), but the gcc 
CVS repository took 1 hour to tag, while it's constant time for subversion.

I could understand a little why people would use hg instead of git.  I 
think that git's design is better, and most of the common objections are 
red herring (e.g. I never had any problem with "git diff -rHEAD vs. git 
diff" because, if my commit is complicated enough to add files, I always 
use "git citool" to review it instead), but it didn't work well on 
Windows until very recently, and there are no good tutorials IMNSHO.  I 
even felt the need to write mine (see http://smalltalk.gnu.org/tags/git 
if you're intereste).

Paolo