Moving xlibs modules to xorg

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 01:31:10PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> I can't believe how much uncalled for backlash Keith has received by
> moving some things over to git.
> 
> Is resistence to change so strongly built into everyone's chromosomes?
> 
> You'll have to learn something new.
> 
> You'll have to do some things differently.
> 
> Some things might be frustrating as you learn the new concepts
> surrounding how to use this new revision control system.
> 
> A lot of people talked about improving the X11 source management
> situation, but Keith is the only one who bothered to do a real
> investigation (with face to face discussions with the actual authors
> and users of GIT, I know I was there) and then implement something.
> Keith acted, whilst everyone did nothing but talk about making things
> better.
> 
> Everyone needs to get over this trigger happy negative response people
> seem to love having over this.

Dave,
I've been calling for us to move away from CVS since 2004.  You can find
this in the mailing list archives if you like.  I have no issue with
moving away from CVS.

I have an issue with moving to got, today, unilaterally, by surprise.

As for the investigations, you might be interested to know that people
were investigating alternatives such as GNU Arch/tla/baz as far back as
2004, Subversion earlier than that, and more recently, darcs and hg.  I
don't know if monotone, rosegarden and bzr-ng have been looked into at
all, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

Daniel, who maintains several X trees in darcs (but isn't proposing
darcs for general X use)
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