Google could pick Git to manage Android code

[jkkramer]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9951208-39.html

[LogicHoleFlaw]

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

[bbb → LogicHoleFlaw]

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.

[ComputerGuru → bbb]

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

[andreyf → LogicHoleFlaw]

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 → andreyf]

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

[jrockway → andreyf]

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 → jrockway]

Interesting. Linus is the new Larry.

[jrockway → j2d2]

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.

[rw]

Wow! Stop the presses.