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I'm not convinced about the perceived difficulty to learn git et al. You and the other FreeBSD developers are OS hackers. You're telling me it's hard for them to learn a dvcs in a few days? Look at all the Rails developers and users. They seem to have few problems switching to git.

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I don't think that cperciva said that it is difficult to use it. It's not just because DVCS are in fashion that they must be adopted, that's his point.

I'm a happy mercurial user, but that does not make me look down on someone who uses CVS/SVN/Perforce and is okay with it.

Neither do i. And i'm not arguing that FreeBSD should adopt git or another dvcs. But the time to learn them is imo not an argument against them.

Agreed. It took me all of an hour to learn to use git. We switched our project over one Saturday morning, haven't looked back.

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