Re: [AD] 5.0.0 RC2 release notes

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My vote would be Mercurial, but it's up to you guys anyway if you
decide to switch.

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Personally, I'd rather stay with SVN, just because I get no advantage out of
> using git. But
> I don't have a good excuse why I can't make the switch, so I don't really
> care. If someone
> doesn't want to switch though, well we have to consider that and Evert is
> import especially
> on OS X where nobody else really knows what they're doing. However, if SVN
> is so slow
> that it's taking Peter an hour to do a 2 minute job, then we have to
> consider the option. Mark
> me down as a "either way, I don't care".
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anders Andersson" <trezker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Allegro Development" <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [AD] 5.0.0 RC2 release notes
>
>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Very little, in fact. And if I do happen to have some time, having to
>>> switch to a different version control system (or even just a different
>>> branch) can put me off sufficiently that I'll do something else that
>>> requires less preparation. This is from past experience.
>>> Not that it's crucial one way or the other whether I contribute something
>>> or not, just saying what the consequence would be in terms of when and
>>> how often I contribute something other than an opinion.
>>
>> Yeah if you're that short on time you might as well wait until you do
>> get some free time to get into git. If your life is to busy to
>> prioritize this... Looks like you're the only one negative in this
>> thread, and as has been said svn is slow and near death. I think it
>> may even be discouraging for potential new developers to come in to a
>> project that still uses svn.
>>
>> I may not be a regular allegro developer, but I have followed the
>> development for a long time now doing plenty of checkouts and done
>> some good in testing. So I think my little vote for switching to git
>> counts. :)
>
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