Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Warren Turkal wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 22 February 2007 11:00, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>> 1. It has an api that can be written to, that may or may not be helpful
>>> to buildfarm.
>>>
>>> 2. It has mindshare. I know that isn't a big deal to a lot of people
>>> here, but the it is becoming the new cvs. There are others of course
>>> (like monotone) but most projects I know are moving from cvs to svn or
>>> starting with svn.
>>>
>> Git is also pretty cool, too. You can even present a CVS interface on a git
>> repository. That might address the build farm issue.
>>
>
> But it wasn't portable, last time I checked.
>
>
Besides that, the whole idea is that buildfarm should mimic as exactly
as possible how we checkout and build by hand.
cheers
andrew
