git tools for building in base?

[Juraj Lutter]

> On 18 Dec 2020, at 14:02, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> 
> On 25/11/2020 06:54, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
>> NetBSD users face a similar problem with their upcoming switch from cvs to hg (Mercurial).
> 
> Do anybody have a link to some documents stating why FreeBSD chose Git and why NetBSD chose Mercurial? I am using both tools at $WORK, I am just curious what leads to these decisions.

Joerg Sonnenberger had a talk about it:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/netbsd_and_mercurial/

At NetBSD it is not that straightforward:
  - git is used for pkgsrc-wip
  - src, xsrc and pkgsrc are in CVS and there are *plans* to move to hg,
    but there are no fixed deadlines when this will be done.

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