[webkit-dev] Moving to Git?

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Alexis Menard
<alexis.menard at openbossa.org>wrote:
>
> I don't use svn but the only benefit I see of WebKit using svn is the
> linear history, clean, easy to read and to explore. Git repos tend to
> have merging commits a lot and it leads to make bisecting/history
> browsing harder (my taste).
>

And that's a show stopper for me. For build bot maintenance, regression
fixes, etc... being able to easily tell the number of commits between two
revisions (in my head as opposed to using a tool) or the ordering of
commits is crucial.

Then for everything else I use git and its power locally.
>

Right. Git clients are pretty nice.

- Ryosuke
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