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GHC migrating to Git

March 30, 2011

From cvs-ghc@haskell.org:

Hi all,

We now plan to do the git switchover this Thursday, 31 March.

Thanks
Ian

There are some things that I will miss from Darcs (darcs send and the cases where “everything is a patch” actually does work well), but all and all I’m quite pleased to see GHC moving to Git.

4 Comments

  1. Anonymous
    Realworld Haskell :)
  2. Danno
    I wonder what Darcs would have been if Roundtree was a mathematician instead of a physicist…
  3. Eric Kow
    Git Interoperability is the one thing I’m most eager to see in Darcs now. I would love for us to bring the everything-is-a-patch UI simplicity to Git repositories. It may take us a while, but I think this is the long term target to shoot for, being able to use Darcs interchangeably with Git.
  4. Joe
    Out of curiosity, was Mercurial considered? If so, what has made it lose against git?