> > 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? > This is what scares me the most, most people are either biased toward Git, or bzr or Mercurial (with Git having the largest fan base among the GNOME community ...), I think that we should sit down and build a list of requirements to the GNOME project, and then select the tool that matches all the requirement, doing it the other way around will always lead to bad results.
> 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. > Concerning me, I used Monotone extensively when it was still very new, it was great compared to the alternatives at that time (although it was damn slow, and the automated 3 way merge followed by an automatic commit created me some trouble), after using Monotone for a while, I gave Darcs a try, it was quite ok, but suffered from some annoying bugs, and speed issue, after that I moved to bzr and I am still using bzr daily, in the mean time I tried Git, but tnh I am not convinced about the design of Git itself, it was designed with speed and repository consistency in mind, but it was definitely not designed around the idea of extensibility nor portability, to me Git is just like autotools. Beside the design issue, Git had an engineer designed UI, and still have it btw, but even if the UI improves with the future releases, I am still not sold to Git design as a software. Cheers, -- Ali _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
