There have been very long and exhaustive threads on p5p discussing the choice of version control system. If you want to know the exact reasons, have fun digging through a few hundred mails. | [reply] |
One of the major hurdles to move away from Perforce was the commit history - it was vital that this was preserved. Regardless whether perl would use git or svk, this was going to be a major task.
Sam Vilain spend a lot of time to "just fucking do it", and he imported the history into git. If someone had done the work to import the history to svk instead, perl would probably use svk right now. | [reply] |