[OSM-dev] Google Summer of Code

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> Why on earth would we want to do that - we have a perfectly good
> repository so why not use it.

Just because some people expressed in the past that they would ahve 
preferred a distributed VCS and that it would have lowered their entry 
barrier to create a local branch for experimenting.

I agree though that using SVN branches is the most sensible solution.