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> I don't understand any developer's that aren't willing to put in the time to learn how to use Git

It’s not like git invented version control or even distributed version control. Stuff predated git and git wasn’t even the only solution that was coded together when BitKeeper changed license terms (personally, I wish Mercurial had won because it has a much better interface, but what won won and I’m happy enough with git to not really care).

Putting all that aside, systems and codebases have their own workflows for a reason. I’m sure the reason WebKit was on SVN for so long wasn’t because the committers weren’t willing to use git (we’ve seen in this comment thread revelations by former Apple engineers who admit that they maintained a shadow git-based codebase internally), I’m sure almost everyone involved uses git. But for whatever reason, there were blockers to migrating (and some of those are explained in the WebKit blog).

Now, as an outsider, I might think that waiting this long to migrate to git, a solid decade after it made sense to do so, is odd. But I don’t have the context. I don’t know the reasons why, and for what it’s worth, the git-svn mirrors seemed to be working well for the people working on the project.

WordPress, a much more active open source project, at least in terms of outside contributors, is also still on SVN. Like WebKit, most contributors work on the git mirrors rather than using SVN. As an outsider, I can also think that it’s ridiculous for that project to still be on SVN, but again, I don’t know the context. I don’t know the blockers, I don’t know the workflow considerations.

But I do feel confident that none of these decisions (or lack of decisions) were made because developers weren’t willing to learn git.




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