On 03/23/2012 10:38 AM, Philippe Vaucher wrote:
Constructive while insightful would be great, i.e., to hear from people have extensive experience with BOTH (kinds of) systems, rather than people being used to X and having heard (good and bad rumors) about Y.
I happen to be one; and for me, it is a no-brainer. That is not to say that I did not use my brain to some extent while concluding, constructively ;-), that Git is far superior to SVN.
As someone with the same experience I can only agree with you. Unfortunately many boosters seems to express the desire to avoid having to put many efforts into learning a new tool.
While I disagree with them (constantly learning new stuffs is part of a developper's job imho), it's hard to tell them they're wrong, especially since the people objecting are active maintainers.
I strongly suggest to reconsider that wording. Accusing anybody not trying to learn new stuff is just rude. I admit that many objections are based on fear, uncertainty and doubt. In order to put those aside, a fully worked out proposal on how the migration and will be helpful. As far as I understand this will be done by Beman when he gives his talk at C++Now!. Anything discussed here before is just a big pile of assumptions etc. I am sure that a decision can, and will be made after the conference.