Version control systems for Lua projects (was Re: LuaSocket development status)

[Christopher Berardi <cberardi@...>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:51:37AM +0400, Alexander Gladysh wrote:
> ...but, really who in the right mind would consider anything but
> GitHub for source code hosting nowadays?).

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 05:33:56PM +0100, Peter Drahoš wrote:
> On part of the LuaDist fork, I would very much welcome to have all Lua
> modules on GitHub (or in any other git repository) so they can be
> forked and tracked for distribution[1]. This would significantly
> reduce the effort needed to look for module changes and keep up with
> new releases. Please consider moving or at least maintaining git
> repositories of your projects on GitHub. Otherwise we would need
> considerable amount of volunteers to keep the repository up to date.

This really makes me wonder. What is the majority, commmonly used source
code platform used at large in the Lua community?

I'll be honest, from what I've seen of git, I've not been impressed.
But, it also isn't the only game in town. Others include the old men in
the game, cvs and svn, git's cousin mercurial, bazaar, fossil, and many
others (I'm currently using fossil myself).

If git is indeed the most popular, as is hinted at in the above quotes,
what factors make it so as opposed to its competitors?

Also, do most of you distribute your code on a public source hosting
site (sourceforge, github, and bitbucket seem to be the most popular)?
Or do you host it on your own site? 

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