[idea]

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.

[rglullis]

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.

[idea]

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.

[swombat]

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.