From: znmeb@... Date: 2009-01-02T08:49:49+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:21053] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git? Quoting Michael Klishin : > And it's great and useful. The question is, if a lot of people in the > community do use Git extensively already, and at least with Rails and > Merb it proven itself being worth the switch because aspiring > contributors *do* find it easier to contribute, what really holds Ruby > core team from making this move? I just want to understand. You'd have to ask them that. Given the sheer number of Ruby core developers working on MRI and KRI in Subversion at the moment, I think there would need to be a *compelling* reason to switch. > I cannot think of an interesting project in the Ruby space that > appeared in 2008 and does not use Git. Either I have a sick metric of > whether project is interesting (it sure may be so), or Git already > reigns supreme in the Ruby universe, and I am sure there is a reason to > it, and MRI development can benefit from the switch. Well, all of my *new* projects are being done in Git (and on Github!), but I'm not sure it's worth the effort to migrate the ones in Subversion on RubyForge. But the main reason I switched is that my projects tend to so much non-Ruby stuff (R, Perl, PostgreSQL, LyX/LaTeX, bash, and Linux itself) that I don't really consider myself a "Ruby developer" in a very pure sense. And I wanted to learn Git. And Github is built on / by EngineYard. And Git was invented by Linus Torvalds. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P), WOM I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.