On Thursday, January 2, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () esr@thyrsus.com (mailto:esr@thyrsus.com) (Eric S. Raymond)
> () Thu, 2 Jan 2014 04:53:47 -0500 (EST)
>  
> Sticking to a moribund version-control system will compound and
> exacerbate 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, but
> 512M RAM is not enough to achieve the tantalizingly compact footprint
> that "git gc --aggressive" purports. I'm a stubborn fool and will find
> a way eventually (suggestions from git-bzr / git experts welcome!), but
> it's an unqualified slog that i imagine is just not worth the trouble
> for others in similar straits.
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>  

I’m using git-bzr myself and one of my computers overheats while doing the initial clone from bzr :-)  
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