I've finally drunk the git kool aid. I'd tried it before, but didn't inhale. Maybe I'm just feeling the effects of that cocktail of mixed metaphors but I really like it.

No more manually copying files between my home machine and my netbook (which isn't big enough or strong enough to handle a whole gcc subversion checkout, let alone the whole git repo) so I can work on the train. And I've already created about one new local branch a day in my gcc clone, so I can juggle fixes for several different PRs at once without constantly applying and reverting patches to my svn working dir.

I signed up to github so I can easily fork other people's repositories and send pull requests via the web interface, but decided to use gitorious for hosting some of my own projects. I like that gitorious itself is open source, but unfortunately ... it just doesn't work as well! I don't mind occasional weird rendering bugs on the web pages, but now I can't push/pull anything, due to an ssh error that didn't happen previously. Ho hum, I'll stick with it for a while yet. Github, on the other hand, is pretty damn slick.