On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Eleanor McHugh wrote:

> The point I suspect that a lot of those pushing for the move to git  
> are missing is that the current core team are comfortable with SVN.  
> There has to be a compelling argument for how the change would  
> support their existing workflow but from what I've read the pressure  
> is mainly about how git will appeal to a broader community: a  
> community that if it were really so keen for extending development  
> could already fork MRI and take the codebase in new directions.

I just wanted to jump in and point out that this has, in fact, already  
been happening. JRuby has Git as its official repo at http://github.com/jruby/jruby 
, and MacRuby now has a Git repo that mirrors the core SVN repo at: git://git.macruby.org/macruby/MacRuby.git 
  (see the message at: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macruby-devel/2009-August/002261.html 
  for more information on that).

Cheers,

Josh