2007/9/16, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Ok, lets be fair: most people who care about hacking on GNOME already > know git, why should other options be selected? Seriously, kernel is > using it, freedesktop.org is using it, and KDE is considering it. Git > is one of those ones you need to learn at some point anyway. Bazaar on > the other hand from what I see is a Ubuntu/Canonical focus and > Mercurial's biggest deployment, yet to be finished, will be Mozilla. > I've seen many Mozilla hackers regret that they are not moving to git.
Well, you forget about OpenSolaris here ;-) I don't think choosing git just because others did is a good way of making choices in general. Although I agree with you to some extend that choosing the same than freedesktop makes some sense to keep the toolchain smaller. I think that an impartial decision has to be made. I wonder if organizing a team of two or three people to evaluate git/hg/bzr to make the decision and just trust their decision would be such a crazy idea? Was going to add these to the wiki page, feel free to do: > > - Keith Packard did a fairly extensive research of which DSCM system > to use for xorg and other fd.o projects, from a storage robustness / > performance point of view, and he wrote this excellent piece: > > http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html Well, the only argument to not choose mercurial was "the X.org needs". Which needs are those? Do we have those needs? To be honest, I don't really care, so far the only one that I've tried seriously is git as I have, and I've had issues loosing files after commits, I'm pretty sure I'm using git incorrectly, but git is not warning me about it anyway so I'm a bit upset. I'm pretty sure other options has its own issues, but I think the only way to avoid an endless discussion is to ask someone to evaluate the three tools in the discussion and just trust him/them. -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz
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