Changes to Developer workflow

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With all the changes to support git, how will that affect a developer’s workflow? (The committer’s workflow will be covered in a future post.)

The idea is “not much at all”, and this post will try to define “not much”.

Remember: all existing ways of working with hg will continue to work! These are just going to be some additional options for folks who prefer to use github & bitbucket.

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DVCS Survey Summary

Summary

A long time ago (December of 2011), I sent out a brief survey on DVCS usage to Mozilla folks (and asked them to spread wider). While there were only 42 responses, there were some interesting patterns.

Disclaimer!

I am neither a statistician nor a psychometrician.

I believe you can see the raw summary at via this link. What follows are the informal inferences I drew from the results (remember the disclaimer).

Commit to git is not the issue:

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