Perl 5 Moves to Git – Impressive Change
I read this article this morning and I have to say that I'm very impressed. To get all the changes and version control from the entire Perl 5 project into Git is clearly a significant body of work. Additionally, I have to say that I'm really pleased that they chose Git, as I did a few months ago, as I believe it's really the future of source control for non-institutional developers.
There's no way a big place is going to allow developers to control their own repositories, but that's really only a small part of all the development that's being done. Several small to medium shops don't want the overhead, and all the open source software is perfectly suited to this tool. I'm glad to have gone through the curve and seen what I needed to do. Don't get me wrong, I'll still have CVS for a long time to come as I don't feel the need to convert off it yet, but it's nice to know could, if I needed to.