On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:41 AM, Colin Finck <co...@reactos.org> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > So I was about to finish my ongoing server work in the next few days and > then push for a move to Git on the mailing lists. Thanks for spoiling > those plans! :) > > I totally agree with all your raised points. I'm using Git every day at > work now, so do several of our developers. For some of us, ReactOS > remains the only project still using SVN. > While Git's usability under Windows has long been a problem (check > ros-dev from April 2009), TortoiseGit and GitHub have greatly simplified > things here. >
The poor usability of Git on non-*nix platforms is one of the reasons why I'm still a huge fan of Mercurial. Also, the SVN-like CLI workflow means that's it's less disruptive than moving to Git. There's also a fantastic guide on how to get started with Mercurial[0]. That being said, Mercurial and Git can interoperate with each other fairly well. If you choose to have a Git server, then Mercurial can talk to it through hg-git[1]. If you choose to have a Mercurial server, then Git can talk to it through git-remote-hg[2]. However, Mercurial has better support for natively working in Windows, and tends to handle the differences of platforms a whole lot better than Git does. My experience with importing and contributing to SVN based projects tends to be better with Mercurial than Git, simply because the SVN data maps better in Mercurial. > I also got introduced into Git submodules recently. They're perfectly > suited for a large project like ReactOS that should be split up into > multiple smaller subprojects. Having several easily hackable > subprojects, and then having them on GitHub, gives us way more exposure > and probably more contributors. > Mercurial supports subrepositories[3], which is a more advanced form of Git's submodules. Mercurial's subrepositories do not have to be Mercurial repositories, either. They can be SVN, Git, or any other supportable source of repository information. I'll admit to having some bias here against GitHub. I don't like it very much, as I don't even find it very intuitive. There are a lot of annoying shortcomings when it comes to how things are tracked and recorded which annoy me. Between GitHub and BitBucket, I very much prefer BitBucket. But generally speaking, I'm not much of a fan of using proprietary software for software development. If we could avoid it, that would be nice. There are very nice FOSS tools out there for providing an excellent development experience, such as Phabricator[4] and GitLab[5] for self-hosted environments. If you really want to move to a Git based hosted platform, GitLab.com offers free hosting[6], and there's also BitBucket[7] for either Mercurial or Git. [0]: http://hginit.com/ [1]: http://hg-git.github.io/ [2]: https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg [3]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Subrepository [4]: http://phabricator.org/ [5]: https://about.gitlab.com/features/ [6]: https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ [7]: https://bitbucket.org/ -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
