[Lazarus] SubVersion vs Git

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> The better way is imo to create a branch at the main repository where
>> you can work, so as I said in my other mail, it is backed up, everybody
>> can review it early and easily,
> 
> My last point on the subject... You last statement is a "pipe dream".
> Nobody has time to even implement all there own todo list items and
> nice features. So where is everybody going to get the time to review
> other peoples "in progress" code as well, and in all the branches.

We do this at least for the compiler and the rtl.

> 
> But like you said, the Windows support in not ideal yet, so the whole
> point of Git is moot at this time. I respect that.

You should have a look at mercurial then. Mercurial was started with the
same motivation as git but isn't a heap of unixish script hacks.