Hello all,
Having done some searching on this issue for some time now, and haven discovered no definitive answer, I figured that this would be the best place to ask this question.
I, like most of you use prefer to use the ports system when installing a particular application. Lately, I have been doing a bit of development work in ports using the Porter's Handbook, and using subversion to supply and update my ports codebase. However, thinking about it, and not meaning or wanting to start a flame war, but: is there a particular reason why subversion and not git or mercury (hg) is used as a source manager for the system?
As I understand it, CVS was the previous version manager system which was superseded by subversion. But, given the merits of both
Could anyone shed any light on this, please? I would appreciate any insight that anyone could offer.
Thanks!
Having done some searching on this issue for some time now, and haven discovered no definitive answer, I figured that this would be the best place to ask this question.
I, like most of you use prefer to use the ports system when installing a particular application. Lately, I have been doing a bit of development work in ports using the Porter's Handbook, and using subversion to supply and update my ports codebase. However, thinking about it, and not meaning or wanting to start a flame war, but: is there a particular reason why subversion and not git or mercury (hg) is used as a source manager for the system?
As I understand it, CVS was the previous version manager system which was superseded by subversion. But, given the merits of both
git
and hg
over svn
- most particularly, improved branching and merging - I also had to ask if anyone knew if or when (if possible) FreeBSD was planning to transition to either of these systems in the future and if so, when may that occur - if at all?Could anyone shed any light on this, please? I would appreciate any insight that anyone could offer.
Thanks!