On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Michael B. Trausch
<mike@trausch.us> wrote:
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:13:47 -0500
Zachary Gorden <drakekaizer666@gmail.com>
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.
Granted moving to it (or any other DVCS) would likely require that the
repository be split so that reactos, rosapps, etc., are all in their
own shared repositories, but I think that this is better than pulling
everything all at once anyway. You can pull subsets with Subversion,
but it's still a pain to mirror that way.
The big players ATM in DVCS are git and Bazaar, though. (And hg,
mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is also written in Python and so it
is just as portable as Bazaar is, though I don't know of terribly many
projects using it). If you switched to bzr, you'd get the nice
advantage of making it easy for Launchpad to mirror the repositories,
and making it easier for people who already use Launchpad and bzr for
hosting to contribute. Just a thought.
--- Mike
Aside from Launchpad, not many people actually like using Bazaar because it has the worst performance of the three by far. So far, people have recommended like so:
Git - need to be extremely tech savvy, willing to work mostly if not only in POSIX-based systems, worst documentation of the three
Mercurial - more complete docs, so easier to learn, cross-platform, has good performance with mix of C and Python
Bazaar - extremely cross platform, very slow compared to Mercurial and Git, sparsely documented, or out of date documentation, slightly strange in syntax, recommended for very small projects where performance won't matter too much.
That was the advice I got when I was figuring out a DVCS to use for the Enano CMS Project. Based on that, it was rather easy to throw out Git and Bazaar.