Daniel Keep wrote:
Well, the reason *I* don't use git is that at the time I started using a DVCS, it didn't run at all on Windows (some people reported partial success with cygwin but that was all). Even if support has improved, it still seems to me like Windows is a second rate citizen in the git world, and this leads me to worry about how git handles the idiosyncrasies of Windows. Plus, my experience with other cygwin/msys based projects leave me worried about git's speed on Windows (although I haven't tested it).Jérôme M. Berger wrote:Leandro Lucarella wrote:Anyways, my point was, putting DMDFE in a SCM would be great, even when it's svn. For me the ideal would be Git, Mercurial or other distributed SCM would be nice, but even svn is better than we have now =)Oh, I agree. However, IMO git is a poor choice. Mercurial, Bazaar or svn would be better.After having used both git and svn, I'll have to VERY strongly disagree with that last part. I'd imagine that *any* half-way sane DVCS would be better than svn. As for the others, you don't provide any objective reasons for WHY they're better than git.
Moreover, everything I've read on the web seems to indicate that git is difficult to use if you want to do more than add/commit/update. Mercurial is *very* easy to both setup and use on windows as well as linux. I'm less familiar with Bazaar, but from what I've seen it's very similar to Mercurial.
Finally, no matter how good it is, TortoiseGIT is not enough (in the same way that TortoiseCVS, TortoiseSVN and TortoiseHg are not enough). You need good command-line support so that you can access it easily from custom tools (for example to generate releases automatically).
On a side note, we have to ask ourselves: is a DSCM really needed for D? So long as there are only a few developers, a centralized system might be enough (in which case svn becomes the only real choice).
Jerome
PS: http://texagon.blogspot.com/2008/02/use-mercurial-you-git.html
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