Official GCC git repository

[Andrew Haley]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:35 -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>> If by "really weird" you mean "nobody has any real complaints about
>> the way it works and are happy it is close to what they were using
>> before", then yes, they are using something "really weird".
> 
> To be honest, I find it weird that Subversion even exists. Precisely
> because it _is_ so close to what people were using before, as you point
> out. I've never really understood why anyone would bother to change from
> CVS to SVN -- it just seems to be part of the 'one VCS per project'
> insanity.

Well, there are some real advantages, but I guess you never found out
what they were.  It was a boost for gcc.

> At least with distributed version control systems, you get a real
> benefit and not just change for the sake of it. 

Well, it's a real difference, for sure.  It may be a benefit in some
circumstances.

> But again there seems to be a multitude of contenders because everyone
> wants to write their own, rather than settling on one.

That's true.

> I've mostly given up on learning to use different version control
> systems. Subversion was the last one I tried, and as soon as I stopped
> banging my head against the wall, I just gave up on the project I was
> trying to work on and did something else instead. There's plenty of
> projects out there which need contributors and which _don't_ make life
> harder for developers by requiring them to learn some new and
> pointlessly different VCS. 

It's not possible for a VCS to be "different" -- it can only be different
from some other VCS.  And from that POV, git is "pointlessly different"
from other VCS.

> Later I learned about git-svn and just starting mirroring stuff from all
> kinds of other VCSs into git, and life got a whole lot easier.

I guess so, as long as semantically important stuff doesn't break when
you do that.

Andrew.