I am, somewhat famously, one of the last holdouts in the Perl community when it comes to moving away from svn to git.

I fought against the most for a long time, on the basis that the tool support for git on Windows was just terrible and it would make contributing to Perl difficult for Windows people.

Fortunately, with the availability of tools like SmartGit and GitHub for Windows this is no longer a problem.

So it looks like the time has for me to start the giant job of moving my…