Version control systems

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Wed Aug 6 05:53:50 EDT 2008


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

> Just see the comments here,
> 
>     http://www.reddit.com/comments/6v2nl/ghc_project_switches_to_git/
> 
> "Great news!"
> 
> "I'm trying to clone this now,"

Let's see what they say when they find out :-)

Duncan



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