On Sunday, March 06, 2011 12:43:23 pm Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 17:33, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > > Is this a Debian-wide decision, or can each subteam go its own way? > > each team can decide on its own, but git is very wide accepted within > Debian, which is to be considered when choosing a new VCS to use > (because it presents a lower barrier to attract contributors from > inside Debian, outside contributors is another story). > > > Because > > > > if the latter, then I would much prefer to see debian-python choose a > > Python-based dVCS. I'm partial to Bazaar, but the upstream Python > > project just converted to Mercurial over the weekend. Either one would > > be an excellent upgrade from Subversion. > > Do the 2 VCDs you mentioned have clear advantage that make then > preferible to git except being Python-based? If so, I think it's a > quite weak reason.
One thing that is a clear advantage for bzr is that it supports both a traditional centralized workflow and modern DVCS workflow so that not everyone needs to switch to a foreign method of work immediately after the transition. I'm using it on one commercial project that had a mix of developers with svn and git experience and bzr seems to have provided an environment that's reasonably comfortable for both. It's not as fast a git and it suffers from not being able to do partial checkouts (like git), so it's very much a middle ground in both advanatages and disadvantages between svn and git. I've never used hg. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103061352.12666.deb...@kitterman.com