The RPM.org site is using Mercurial

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 15 December 2006 03:02, John Villalovos wrote:
> I just noticed that the newly announced RPM development repository is
> using Mercurial.
>
> http://wiki.rpm.org/GetSource

Yep, I was involved in that discussion.  We wanted a distributed SCM that 
would better enable downstream vendors of RPM to track upstream and push 
their local changes back up to the upstream.  The major choices were 
mercurial or git, and none of the people involved really wanted to use git 
(for many obvious reasons), so we chose mercurial (:  The new branch code is 
very compelling too, as RPM upstream does handle a lot of branches, where it 
isn't always quick/easy to toss up a cloned repo.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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