Re: [ros-dev] Using git for all ros source as main revision control

[King InuYasha]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Alexey Komarov <q4a(a)bk.ru> wrote:

>   "its support for Windows remains a problem
> point." - i'm using XP with
>  tortoisegit 0.5.1.0 ( http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ ) and it
>  works perfectly.
>  Any way, I propose to vote here:
>  http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6744
>
>  Zachary Gorden wrote:
> >   This was discussed amongst the developers.  A
> > fair portion objected,
> >  and rather strongly at that.  I happen to be one of them.  Its
> >  "performance" is oversold and its support for Windows remains a
> >  problem point.  And with the new branching features in SVN, the one
> >  advantage git does hold that's worth anything to us may well be
> >  disappearing. 
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No BLOODY WAY! Git is a pain to use and the tortoise extensions have some
serious performance problems when dealing with large repositories. If we are
going to DVCS, go to Mercurial, at least that one supports Windows and
offers all the same advantages of Git, albeit not at as high of a
performance gain as Git because of it being cross platform and not using
POSIX features to heavily optimize it. It's still good. In fact, I use
Mercurial to check out the latest revisions of ReactOS because SVN has a
horrible problem of locking up my computer for hours on end before actually
downloading the repository.

Also, even though Git has come a long way, its not quite as easy to use as
Mercurial. And if anyone suggest Bazaar, I have one thing to say: Slow
Interpreted Performance. It could be better, but it isn't.

If ReactOS's target was UNIX systems, then Git would be okay. But this is a
Windows reimplementation. That implies Windows users.