[oe] Reconsidering the work flow and how the SCM system fits in

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:00:01 +0000
Richard Purdie <rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:

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> Whilst I agree we should give a lot of weight to technical arguments,
> a large active userbase is a good thing for an SCM. It means there are
> more howto guides out there, more people who've probably hit your
> problem before, 

Yeah, I'd say, *every* git user hit your problem before - that
git is inconsistent, poorly implemented set of hacks. And if they grow
to love it, why that can't happen to yourself, right?

> more people you can go and ask for advice when
> something breaks etc.
> 
> There is also an advantage if someone doesn't have to know yet another
> SCM to check out OE. I don't have hg installed, I do have git and if
> we conducted a poll of other OE devs/users I think we'd see a
> pattern. 

I probably dumb, but that pattern would be CVS? SVN? no? Nevermind, of
course.

> So it is valid to consider it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

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