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Google could pick Git to manage Android code

• LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
  Google's moving from Perforce to Git? I dare say Git has won the DCVS war.
  • andreyf 18y ago
    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.
    • LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
      Ah, good point. I should have specified "open-source DCVS war."
    • jrockway 18y ago
      FWIW, Perl has been in Perforce forever, and it's an open source project. But Perforce sucks, so it's being migrated to Git.
      • j2d2 18y ago
        Interesting. Linus is the new Larry.
        • jrockway 18y ago
          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.
  • bbb 18y ago
    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 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.
    • ComputerGuru 18y ago
      Yeah, because Linus is really impartial on the matter ;-)
• rw 18y ago
  Wow! Stop the presses.