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Worth using either way (Score:1)
I don't think git is going to magically draw more contributors to a project, but it certainly does make the lives of everyone involved with the project easier.
Even if you end up with the same number of contributions when compared to svn, I still think git is worth the switch. Being able to add a remote repository and cherry-pick a specific patch, or merge a branch in a matter of minutes is great. I don't maintain any popular projects, but for the few that I do get contributions [github.com], it has made my job much quic
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That's my view so far, qualitative and as best I can quantitative*, based this project that converted to git [perl.org].
So I think that Adam's hypothesis that a conversion to git doesn't materially change the contributor profile seems to remain unchallenged.
* I'm not a statistician, and the data that I extract seems to have a lot of variation, so I'm not comfor
Re:Worth using either way (Score:1)
We have learned from the discipline of program optimisation that removing the major bottleneck just reveals the next, and what these people are actually saying is “Perforce was the first thing I ran into that discouraged me beyond my motivation threshold”. Progress exists, though, regardless of whether silver bullets do.
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