Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System

On Elpeleg writes "The Perl Foundation has announced they are switching their version control systems to git. According to the announcement, Perl 5 migration to git would allow the language development team to take advantage of git's extensive offline and distributed version support. Git is open source and readily available to all Perl developers. Among other advantages, the announcement notes that git simplifies commits, producing fewer administrative overheads for integrating contributions. Git's change analysis tools are also singled out for praise. The transformation from Perforce to git apparently took over a year. Sam Vilain of Catalyst IT 'spent more than a year building custom tools to transform 21 years of Perl history into the first ever unified repository of every single change to Perl.' The git repository incorporates historic snapshot releases and patch sets, which is frankly both cool and historically pleasing. Some of the patch sets were apparently recovered from old hard drives, notching up the geek satisfaction factor even more. Developers can download a copy of the current Perl 5 repository directly from the perl.org site, where the source is hosted."

Comments

que the unreadability jokes

[Dan667]

but this is fantastic. I use perl every day and love it.

Re:que the unreadability jokes

[Dystopian Rebel]

Dear Perl Monger,

TMTOWTDI in Perl. However, in English spelling:

- Que Publishing is a publisher of computer books
- Q was an arrogant but powerful character in ST:TNG who liked to annoy the crew of the Enterprise because they didn't copulate anywhere near as much as James... T... Kirk.
- queue, noun, a line or series of people or things; verb, to form a line or series.
- cul, noun, French, the buttocks
- cue, noun, a signal or indication; verb, to signal, to indicate, to move to position.

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Re:que the unreadability jokes

[CODiNE]

Qué?

Re:que the unreadability jokes

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is the script used to migrate perl to the git version control system:

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Re:que the unreadability jokes

[Anonymous Coward]

Parent post is just gibberish, it is not a real Perl program.

Re:que the unreadability jokes

[Anonymous Coward]

FAIL!

Re:que the unreadability jokes

[DrEasy]

I ran your code and the output was 42.

I'd rather seen they moved to Subversion

[berend botje]

They should have moved to Subversion. Git is just plain weird.

This must be the sign

[berend botje]

This must be the sign. Any day now The Announcement will come: "Perl Six is Ready!".

And there will be much rejoicing!

Seriously, I can't wait!

Re:This must be the sign

[CarpetShark]

Actually, this is an intermediate step. They now know how to tag perl 6, if/when it does arrive.

Can't get there from here

[djupedal]

$ git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git

-bash: git: command not found

I volunteer !

[Anonymous Coward]

There are too few developers working on Perl 6, adding a few would actually speed it up. There is a lot of work to be done, and people are spread too thin.

I don't have a clue regarding perl, but looking at some perl scripts, I think I can do it. I mean all you have to do is type #! /bin/perl and roll your face over the keyboard.