GCC Developers Might Finally Switch Over To Using Git

Development of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is currently centered around a Subversion (SVN) repository while there is a Git mirror that can be cloned from. However, in acknowledging today's advantages of Git and it being the dominant version control system by open-source projects, they're looking at moving to Git.

At the GNU Tools Cauldron 2015 earlier this month in Prague, GCC developers were open to switching over to Git as their default version control system for managing development of this leading open-source compiler. Jason Merrill of Red Hat who has been maintaining the Git copy of the SVN repository has started a mailing list thread about the open questions around this likely transition.

With even Emacs being developed in Git these days, hopefully the GCC developers will go ahead with migrating over to Git and letting their SVN repository retire. LLVM and its sub-projects are also in a similar situation right now of relying upon SVN for development but there being Git mirrors.