Re: coreutils-6.5 released (stable)

[Simon Josefsson]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> I did hesitate before asking this, but... :-)
> Would anyone be averse to switching gnulib development from CVS to git?
> I switched coreutils a month ago and am very happy with the result.

I've been hesitating to change from cvs in my projects because there
seem to be too many options available, and it isn't clear exactly what
the con/pro's are for each alternative.  Frankly, I hadn't even heard
about git until a few weeks ago, although I'm familiar with svn and
arch (of which I strongly prefer svn).  Has anyone made a comparison?

I'm particularly interested in emacs support, external tools support
(e.g., cvs2cl to produce changelogs, viewcvs.cgi for web browsing,
statcvs e.g. <http://josefsson.org/gnutls/statcvs/>), authentication
options (anonymous, ssh, etc), portability (Windows?).  Support at
Savannah may be a factor too.

/Simon