Google could pick Git to manage Android code

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15 pointsjkkramer9 comments

Google's moving from Perforce to Git? I dare say Git has won the DCVS war.

I don't think Perforce is an option for this code, as it's being made public. I didn't see the article say anything about changing their internal CVS.

Ah, good point. I should have specified "open-source DCVS war."

FWIW, Perl has been in Perforce forever, and it's an open source project. But Perforce sucks, so it's being migrated to Git.

Interesting. Linus is the new Larry.

Actually, I misused the word "forever" to mean "a long time". Larry isn't really involved with Perl 5 anymore, though, so any conversion to Git was not his idea.

Not all of Google (yet), but there has been some significant lobbying for the use of git inside Google in the past by Linus himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 (Google Tech Talk)

If you want to learn more about git and the motivation behind it, then I really recommend watching the linked video. I find it quite entertaining.

Yeah, because Linus is really impartial on the matter ;-)

Wow! Stop the presses.

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