LWN: Comments on "Git v2.28.0"

Git v2.28.0

gracinet — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:20:25 +0000

> [It's hardly LWN's fault that] Git's development velocity and release cadence is an order of magnitude (or so) higher than everything else.

I don't believe this latter statement to be so true.

For instance, Mercurial has a three month release cadence, and I can count 512 non merge commits in the three months between versions 5.3 (last January) and 5.4 (April). Of course, the relevance of a commit count is highly subjective.

Disclaimer: I'm a Mercurial contributor, and I don't believe it's LWN's fault either :-)

Other VCS systems

corbet — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:08:46 +0000

Send an announcement to lwn@lwn.net, thanks.

Other VCS systems

gracinet — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:02:57 +0000

Hi Jon,

here's evidence that the Mercurial project would be interested: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2020-Ju...

What would be the procedure? An announcement on a mailing-list or a link to a blog post, plus a notification on lwn@lwn.net?

I understand it's not a right to get announcements relayed here.

Thank you all for your work.

Git v2.28.0

pizza — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:35:57 +0000

I can't help but think of Top Gear's old "Great News!" running gag about the Dancia Sandero.

Git v2.28.0

jnareb — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:23:52 +0000

Is there Mercurial equivalent to monthly-released Git Rev News (https://git.github.io/rev_news/)?

Other VCS systems

corbet — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:38:05 +0000

At least, we announce new versions when we actually have a release announcement to work from. Some projects are rather better about sending those out than others.

Git v2.28.0

pizza — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:56:14 +0000

Um, LWN reports when Mercurial, Fossil, Subversion, or whatever release new versions.

It's hardly LWN's fault that Git's development velocity and release cadence is an order of magnitude (or so) higher than everything else.

Git v2.28.0

jeffcook — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:50:43 +0000

Agreed, the git homogeny is tiresome. This isn't VCS Weekly News, but would be nice to see consideration of more than just git sometimes. Fossil is great too, and works for use cases that fundamentally break git.

Git v2.28.0

tamasrepus — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:01:36 +0000

My preference:

git config --global init.defaultBranch trunk

Git v2.28.0

auc — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 11:43:43 +0000

Any chance that we'd have something like "mercurial news" ? Mercurial is far from being dead, even if the mindshare has shrunk a lot, and imho is a fantastic alternative to git.

Git v2.28.0

unixbhaskar — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 09:47:11 +0000

This is the cool thing they have done with this release...much required...thanks

git config --global init.defaultBranch master