[barcode] Git

[David Santinoli]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:02:33PM +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> FYI: I'm switching over to git, in the next days I should have it
> available over http (only http by now, but even Russell King has only
> http, so I won't do the extra work of installing and routing out a git
> server).

Just out of personal curiosity (no religion war intended at all), how
did you come to choose git?

Thanks,
 David

PS I am finally going to get the PNG patch in a decent state.  Is a diff
against 0.98 still OK or should I diff against a snapshot instead?