<story><title>PHP will switch to git</title><url>http://news.php.net/php.internals/55293</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>socratic</author><text>Git appears to be fast becoming the standard DVCS.&lt;p&gt;Is there any reason that all reasonably well-run projects should not be using git?&lt;p&gt;GitHub seems vastly superior to BitBucket, and git itself seems pretty much isomorphic to hg (albeit with worse syntax).  (This ignores darcs, bzr, etc., but those never seemed terribly competitive for mindshare.)  Furthermore, the network effects (with pull requests on Github, not having to have people learn a new DVCS to commit to your project, etc.) seem huge.&lt;p&gt;Aside from some new innovation on the scale of switching from a centralized VCS to a distributed VCS, I can&apos;t imagine anything that would cause me to try to start a project in something other than git, learn another VCS other than git, or try to convert someone to another VCS other than git.  Is this the wrong attitude?&lt;p&gt;Is there any chance that Python might see the light and switch to git from hg?  At this stage, choosing hg over git for reasons that seem increasingly irrelevant (better Windows support at the time, written in C/shell rather than Python) is starting to look like a worse and worse historical decision.</text></comment>
<story><title>PHP will switch to git</title><url>http://news.php.net/php.internals/55293</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>beaumartinez</author><text>The votes are a &lt;i&gt;stark&lt;/i&gt; contrast to those of the core Python developers when they were voting on which DVCS to migrate to[1]—although understandably they favoured Mercurial, they &lt;i&gt;disfavoured&lt;/i&gt; git. (Bazaar got a good share of votes as well.) The victor&apos;s margin was much smaller.&lt;p&gt;This was all early-2009, though. I wonder if git&apos;s increasing popularity has swayed the core PHP developers?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#why-mercurial-over-other-dvcss&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#why-mercurial-over-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>