Xlib moved to git

[Stuart Kreitman]

alan:

I'd like to know how pissed to get at this. Is he forking 
freedesktop.org  or just pushing the envelope?
Do you know if there are enough people like us out there to keep X.org 
alive in the event
of a  fork?

skk


Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Keith Packard wrote:
>
>> Development for the X library has been moved to git. 
>
>
> Since the decision to do this seems to have been made in private
> discussions, can you explain to the rest of us why git was chosen
> for us over subversion or mercurial, which seemed to be the leading
> contenders to replace CVS in discussions until very recently?
>