The Perl-Git connection

Entertaining blog post about version control (note Git Airline's main competitor).

It's funny, but I keep hearing how great Git is, and I also keep seeing it mentioned in the same sentence as Perl...

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Re: The Perl-Git connection by grinder (Bishop) on Mar 06, 2008 at 22:12 UTC
Funny you should mention that. You do realise that Rafael Garcia-Suarez, current pumpking for 5.12 (and 5.10, and 5.6...) announced today that the Perl 5 Porters will be switching from Perforce to git. It is hoped that this will allow casual hackers to try things out more easily. • another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl	[reply]
Re^2: The Perl-Git connection by bramble (Beadle) on Mar 07, 2008 at 02:32 UTC
Did not know that. Thank you. Most interesting.	[reply]
Re: The Perl-Git connection by dynamo (Chaplain) on Mar 07, 2008 at 18:54 UTC
I started using darcs a few days ago (with perl :) on a local level while my team submits are in svn.. Give it a shot it's _very_ low investment to try. All I had to do was add a single binary in my path, and allow it to create a single folder in the root of my source tree already having .svn folders strewn about everywhere. It sure looks clean in that context. -d	[reply]