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I you are trying to install the latest git on leopard. You must add NO_MSGFMT=1 to your make line for it compile properly.

More "discussion":http://www.vuntz.net/journal/2007/09/10/446-svn-vs-gitbzrhgblablabla of gnome moving to git

Git is rising in popularity. This last weeks "Floss weekly":http://www.twit.tv/floss19 topic was "git":http://git.or.cz/

Linus: I like making strong statements, because I find the discussion interesting. In other words, I actually tend to 'like' arguing. Not mindlessly, but I certainly tend to prefer the discussion a bit more heated, and not just entirely platonic.

And making strong arguments occasionally ends up resulting in a very valid rebuttal, and then I'll happily say: "Oh, ok, you're right."

But no, that didn't happen on SVN/CVS. I suspect a lot of people really don't much like CVS, so I didn't really even expect anybody to argue that CVS was really anything but a legacy system. And while I've gotten a few people who argued that I shouldn't have been quite so impolite against SVN (and hey, that's fair -- I'm really not a very polite person!), I don't think anybody actually argued that SVN was 'good'.

SVN is, I think, a classic case of 'good enough'. It's what people are used to, and it's 'good enough' to be used fairly widely, but it's good enough in exactly the sense DOS and Windows were 'good enough'. Not great technology, just very widely available, and it works well enough for people and looks familiar enough that people use it. But very few people are 'proud' of it, or excited about it.

Git, on the other hand, has some of the 'UNIX philosophy' behind it. Not that it is about UNIX, per se, but like original UNIX, it had a fundamental idea behind it. For UNIX, the underlying philosophy was/is that, "Everything is a file." For git, it's, Everything is just an object in the content-addressable database."

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For those that haven't tried, please try "git":http://git.or.cz/. I think you will find it a great source code management system. For those who say that its harder the subverson, get over it. It's not that much harder and the benefits out way any inconvenience of learning the new commands. Here is an "article":http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter/ that talks about some of the not so obvious features of git.