Including git in FC?

[Brian Gerst]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 07:23 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Peter Jones wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:06 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I would like to suggest including "git" in FC.  Why in the Core? 
>>>>Because in addition to its uses as an SCM, it's also really useful for 
>>>>managing user configurables since it's an SCM that handles sparse trees 
>>>>just fine.  Thus, one can have a ~/.git directory and check in the files 
>>>>one wants to have under control.  However, for this to be useful, git 
>>>>really needs to be available by default in as many places as possible.
>>>
>>>That still doesn't really mandate it being in Core -- it wouldn't be
>>>appropriate for the default install, and our default yum configuration
>>>makes it trivial to install Extras packages.
>>>
>>
>>No, I disagree... it *would* be appropriate for default install.
> 
> 
> I don't think I fully understand why you think it should be in Core.
> Care to elaborate a bit?
> 
> josh
> 

Because it is used for kernel development, which is part of core.

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				Brian Gerst