Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Git/WhyGit

Timestamp:

Dec 8, 2012, 2:31:29 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

Beman Dawes

Comment:

Provide answers to the "why choose Git" question

Git/WhyGit

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   * Is often faster for everyday operations, and sometimes much faster.
 
-* Allows public library specific repositories, such as on GitHub.
+* Allows public library specific repositories, such as on !GitHub.
 
 * Scales up to a much larger number of libraries.
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 == Why should Boost choose Git as our distributed version control system? ==
 
-Mercurial, Bazaar, and perhaps Fossil are also well developed and supported DVCS systems. They are widely used by well-known open source projects. So why choose Git?
+Mercurial, Bazaar, and perhaps Fossil are also well-developed and well-supported DVCS systems. They are widely used by well-known open source projects. So why choose Git?
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+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect Network effect]. Git has won the marketshare battle, so more developers know Git and there are more community resources available.
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+* The Boost contributors doing the modularization work prefer Git.
 
 ==  What is the downside of Boost using distributed version control and Git? ==