From: Urabe Shyouhei Date: 2009-09-04T08:28:50+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:25345] Re: [Feature #2033] Move Core Development to Git Michal Suchanek wrote: > 2009/9/4 Urabe Shyouhei : >> Jon wrote: >>>> Some commiter of Ruby live on Windows. >>>> And windows port of git, msysgit, is still preview (cygwin port is not acceptable). >>>> So we can't move to git. >>> As a user of msysgit on Win2K, WinXP, and Vista machines I've found the current msysgit preview to be very usable. While I personally prefer Mercurial, I'm quickly becoming a big fan of Git and Github. >> That's not the point. The problem on msysGit is that it IS a preview. It's >> not a matter of stability. We cannot believe a preview product especially when >> that preview software is a fundamental tool to us, such as git. >> > > And if I made a new site that offered the same package and labeled it > final would you trust it then? I can then evaluate that software. You know, whether a release is final or not is aside form whether I trust it or not. > What is preview or final or stable is relative to the developer > releasing the package. Yes. Trusting a software includes trusting its developer. How can you trust it when you cannot trust its creator? I suspect there're reasons for the developer to say it's still a preview. And I trust she/he on that. > At the very least > > - this preview package has been tested by people writing here (and > probably many more elsewhere) so it can be labeled final by popular > vote Maybe. But can those people see to that? We are not choosing our wall clocks. A source code management system is vital to an open source software community. I know you remember our repository was once cracked when we used CVS. > - people who insist on doing so can still use a SVN mirror You're saying to move to Git while mirroring that Git repo with SVN? Can that be possible?