[sf-perl] Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System (fwd)
Matthew Lanier
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Sun Jan 4 21:04:05 PST 2009
FYI, not sure if this came up here yet.
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Matthew D. P. K. Strelchun-Lanier
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Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 09:05:02 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/04/1610256
Posted by: Soulskill, on 2009-01-04 16:53:00
[1]On Elpeleg writes "The Perl Foundation has announced they are
[2]switching their version control systems to git. According to the
announcement, Perl 5 migration to git would allow the language
development team to take advantage of git's extensive offline and
distributed version support. Git is open source and readily available
to all Perl developers. Among other advantages, the announcement notes
that git simplifies commits, producing fewer administrative overheads
for integrating contributions. Git's change analysis tools are also
singled out for praise. The transformation from Perforce to git
apparently took over a year. Sam Vilain of Catalyst IT 'spent more
than a year building custom tools to transform 21 years of Perl
history into the first ever unified repository of every single change
to Perl.' The git repository incorporates historic snapshot releases
and patch sets, which is frankly both cool and historically pleasing.
Some of the patch sets were apparently recovered from old hard drives,
notching up the geek satisfaction factor even more. Developers can
download a copy of the current [3]Perl 5 repository directly from the
perl.org site, where the source is hosted."
References
1. mailto:info at web-app.net
2. http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/22/0830205&mode=nocomment
3. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_git_repositories
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