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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [VOTE]  git versus mercurial
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:11:40 -0700
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, walt wrote:
> 
> > walt wrote:
> > > No, no, I'm not the one calling for a vote.  You old-timers here will 
> > > know the name Matt Dillon, who is leading the dragonflybsd project 
> > > (www.dragonflybsd.org).
> > >
> > > Matt is the one who is calling for the vote in his thread "Vote for 
> > > your source control system" in the dragonfly.kernel group, accessible 
> > > via nntp://nntp.dragonflybsd.org...
> > 
> > The official vote was 19 to 19, plus one for perforce and one for svn.  
> > Matt has proposed a primary git repository and a mirror in hg, and 
> > that's being debated now.

FWIW at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit this past weekend
we had a "Git vs. Hg" talk with both Git and Hg represented by
contributors to each project.

Slides are online here:

  http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dcfz2dg9_0hqqz3dsr

-- 
Shawn.