Including git in FC?

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 07:23 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Peter Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:06 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 
> >>I would like to suggest including "git" in FC.  Why in the Core? 
> >>Because in addition to its uses as an SCM, it's also really useful for 
> >>managing user configurables since it's an SCM that handles sparse trees 
> >>just fine.  Thus, one can have a ~/.git directory and check in the files 
> >>one wants to have under control.  However, for this to be useful, git 
> >>really needs to be available by default in as many places as possible.
> > 
> > That still doesn't really mandate it being in Core -- it wouldn't be
> > appropriate for the default install, and our default yum configuration
> > makes it trivial to install Extras packages.
> > 
> 
> No, I disagree... it *would* be appropriate for default install.

I don't think I fully understand why you think it should be in Core.
Care to elaborate a bit?

josh