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+# Why Git?
+
+I'm very curious about the main reasons of your leaving Subversion and moving
+ikiwiki to Git. Are there only easier way to maintain and submit patches for
+ikiwiki? It's very interesting for me, because I know you are long-time Subversion
+user and very experienced with it.
+
+I know that Git is very "trendy" SCM these days, but I don't understand the hype
+about it. This's not only one distributed SCM on the free/open source world.
+Maybe that model of work is better for you, but then you can use also Darcs,
+Mercurial, Bazaar or SVK :)
+
+--[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+
+> You forgot monotoone. :-)
+> 
+> Of those, only mercurial monotone and git have support in ikiwiki, and the
+> git support seems most mature and is definitely used by the most sites.
+> 
+> I don't consider which rcs is used a permanant or particularly significant
+> decision. I switched to svn with the express idea that sometime (I figured
+> within 10 years, it turned out to be 3), there would be something better,
+> with excellent conversion tools from svn.
+> 
+> At the moment, I'm happy with git, and it's definitely useful to not have
+> to worry about who derserves commit access to ikiwiki, or about next summer's
+> [[soc]] students (if we participate again) having to go through the ad-hoc
+> mess this year's did to contribute.
+> 
+> Being able to git-am < doc/todo/patch.mdwn is also potentially pretty neat. ;-)
+> 
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Haha, I've also forgotten Arch and Superversion and probably a lot of
+>> another exotic SCMs ;)
+>>
+>> OK, Ikiwiki is your project, so you're the boss here ;)
+>>
+>> BTW, what do you think about migration of Debian projects from
+>> [svn.debian.org](http://svn.debian.org/) to [git.debian.org](http://git.debian.org/)?
+>> Is a good idea to use a few SCM servers by Debian?
+>>
+>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
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