Re: Version control systems

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:31 +0100, Max Bolingbroke wrote:

2008/8/6 Duncan Coutts :

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On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:12 -0700, Don Stewart wrote:

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marlowsd:

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Following lots of useful discussion and evaluation of the available DVCSs out there, the GHC team have made a decision: we're going to switch to git.

Hooray, this will generate a lot of open source good will, and help make GHC more accessible to the outside world.

Heh, you still need darcs to build it, because all the libs are using darcs, and that's not going to change any time soon.

One thing that might be a good idea is setting up Git mirrors of the libraries etc that we cannot convert to Git since other people depend on them. This would give us nice integration with Gits submodule support, allowing us to check out a consistent snapshot of the entire tree (including the libraries, Cabal etc) at any point in time straightforwardly. Of course, as a bonus you wouldn't have to install Darcs to clone.

If that means I can continue to use darcs for Cabal development then I'm happy. Duncan