On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:() esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)() Thu, 2 Jan 2014 04:53:47 -0500 (EST)Sticking to a moribund version-control system will compound andexacerbate the project's difficulty in attracting new talent.It impedes people stuck on old (low spec) computers, too. For example,in my adventures w/ git-bzr, i have managed to do the initial clone, but512M RAM is not enough to achieve the tantalizingly compact footprintthat "git gc --aggressive" purports. I'm a stubborn fool and will finda way eventually (suggestions from git-bzr / git experts welcome!), butit's an unqualified slog that i imagine is just not worth the troublefor others in similar straits.I’m using git-bzr myself and one of my computers overheats while doing the initial clone from bzr :-)--Thien-Thi NguyenGPG key: 4C807502(if you're human and you know it)read my lisp: (responsep (questions 'technical)(not (via 'mailing-list)))=> nil