Hi David, Think I may have spotted a mistake in the RFC:
Decentralized version control system have some drawbacks: *... Snip .. * no svn:externals, no svn:eol-style Later on in the doc, you go into detail about submodules, and CRLF -> LF support in both Git and Hg. Thanks, Kiall On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:50 PM, David Soria Parra <d...@php.net> wrote: > Hi Internals, > > Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) getting more and more > popular. In fact they have been discussed within the PHP community and > on Internals a few times. It came to my attention that more and more > people like to see PHP move to a DVCS to solve some of the current > issues (and get other ones). > > I was asked to put together a RFC, and so here we are. I've created > an initial draft. It is mostly based on the very good Python PEP-0374. > It compares Git and Mercurial. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/dvcs > > There are reasons for choosing these systems: > * Both are quite popular > * I know them > * Most PHP devs that I know, know at least on of them > * Big projects have recently moved to them, they have > similar requirements like PHP > > The RFC is far from done, so please help me finishing it and get it out. > > This is a call for participation to help to get a (probably heated) > discussed started and work on the RFC to make it good enough to finally > choose a system or, and that is a valid option, stay with SVN. > > So if: > - you are interested in DVCS > - know a little bit about PHPs requirements for a DVCS > - are not a fanboy > > Feel free to discuss this and add your thoughts to the RFC. I would > love to not do this on my own. Feel free to catch me on IRC (dsp_ on > php.pecl) and discuss it. > > NOTE: this is not the place for any religiouise discussion about git vs > mercurial whatsover. if you have nothing else to add than "hg is $*** > anyway" or think hosting platform XY will solve all our problems > without reading the RFC carefully, please post to alt.relgion.* and not > here. > > > - David > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
