From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T03:25:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Why git instead of mercurial?


On 25 Mar 2008, at 17:52, James Britt wrote:
> Luis Lavena wrote:
>
>>>
>> ... but most
>> of the Ruby developers that works on projects (Web frameworks or
>> tools) decided for Git instead of anything else.
>
> Data, please.

http://github.com/repositories

http://www.artima.com/buzz/community.jsp?forum=123

And checkout how many mentionings of git in your local ruby news  
archive....

> I keep reading amazing assertion about how "most Rubyists do this"  
> and "everyone's doing that", but never anything to suggest these are  
> mere guesses based on selective experiences in specific corners of  
> the vast Ruby universe.

Generally comes from the blogosphere impression I'd imagine. That is,  
if they haven't stopped looking at the ruby aggregation feeds because  
of the large volumes of off-topic stuff coming from some places...

Of course, lots of talk is not necessarily a good thing, it could be a  
sign of common problems...

> -- 
> James Britt
>
> "MVC applies to the Web about as well as RPC does."
> - Bill de hOra
>