Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary, part 5 - other SCM

Hello,



----- Original Message ----

From: Jakub Narebski <redacted>
To: David Lang <redacted>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Sent: Friday, 12 September, 2008 4:14:58 PM
Subject: Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary, part 5 - other SCM

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:51, david@lang.hm wrote:

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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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A bit suprising for me is high place of Perforce.  Another strange
thing (and a bit alarming) is that MS Visual SourceSafe has higher
place than Monotone; but that might be caused by different design and
different target groups of Monotone and Git, which might have caused
that the communities have almost no overlap; people choose either Git
or Monotone, one or the other.  BitKeeper has also a very low number
of active users among Git users... but that is not that strange,
considering history.

I think you are making the wrong assumption here.

Someone may use CVS becouse they contribute to a project that is only 
availabe via CVS

Someone may use Perforce becouse that is the VCS that their company uses

I am in that situation...

True, I have forgot that "I use this SCM" (or "I used this SCM") doesn't
necessarily mean that one _choose_ this SCM.  One can use some SCM
because it is SCM project uses, or because their company requires it;
but not necessary, as git-svn and git-p4 show one can use Git, and
make it interact with respectively Subversion and Perforce, and trying
to make it look like one uses this other SCM.

Since we cannot change management to decide on using git instead of whatever they are using overnight. Best is to have tools like git-p4/git-svn which allows interoperability. Once people gain confidence, they can replace that whatever SCM with git. That is the path I am planning at my place of work.

-dhruva



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