There are some fundamental ways in which git works vs Mercurial that make it better - i.e. changesets vs snapshots, multiple branches in 1 repo (in hg last time i looked you have to create a new copy to checkout a different branch) and others...
Raphaël wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Thinking of distributed SCM, why choosing GIT over Mercurial or over > Bazaar > ? > > They use GIT: http://git-scm.com/ (linux kernel) > They use Mercurial: > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ProjectsUsingMercurial(openJDK) > They use Bazaar: http://bazaar-vcs.org/WhoUsesBzr (MySQL) > > Not easy to choose ;-) > > Regards. > > Raphaël > > 2009/4/24 Jason van Zyl <jvan...@sonatype.com> > >> Here is a more complete summary of why I think GIT, and more specifically >> JGIT is the best thing going for the SCM: >> >> http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/04/git-the-sweetest-scm-around/ >> >> On 23-Apr-09, at 10:00 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> Maven was the first project at Apache to use JIRA and though there was a >>> great deal of concern/noise about using JIRA it ultimately proved to be >>> a >>> decent system and now lots of projects are using JIRA. >>> >>> I'm not particularly interested in mandating everything in Maven to use >>> GIT but I would like to pilot the use of GIT as the canonical repository >>> for >>> Maven 3.x and wanted to see what others thought. >>> >>> I believe that GIT is going to be the dominant SCM in the very near >>> future >>> because the distributed nature is so much more inline with the way OSS >>> should work. Anyone can get a complete copy of our work and it is much >>> easier to absorb those changes. There are many examples now on the net >>> demonstrating projects that have switched to GIT and their communities >>> have >>> flourished as a result. >>> >>> We are also seeing the rise of Java implementations of GIT and to me >>> this >>> means there are going to be an order of magnitude more developers able >>> to >>> work on the core system. JGIT, which is being developed primarily by >>> Shawn >>> Pearce @ Google, is awesome. I actually have been participating in >>> helping >>> with the build for JGIT and I've been working with Peter Royal to create >>> a >>> MINA SSHD wrapper around JGIT using JSecurity for authentication and >>> it's so >>> easy. Peter cranked out a working prototype in 3 hours. This simply is >>> not >>> possible with C-based systems like Subversion which is essentially a >>> closed >>> box or generally uninteresting to Java developers. JGIT along with >>> Gerrit >>> (an awesome code review tool Shawn Pearce is working on) is being used >>> by >>> the Google Android team and it's working well (I'm meeting with Shawn >>> Pearce >>> today to chat) so I think we have evidence this works. >>> >>> I'd be happy if everyone here wanted to use GIT but I do believe that I >>> have a better chance of getting people involved with Maven 3.x if I can >>> get >>> the canonical repository in GIT. >>> >>> In the Maven project we set precedent with JIRA and now I would like to >>> do >>> that with GIT. >>> >>> If Apache Infrastructure doesn't want to support this then I feel we can >>> do the same thing we did with JIRA until they catch up. I think having a >>> canonical repository at Github is safe, well backed up and maintained >>> and I >>> don't think we would have to worry about anything there. They have >>> full-time >>> staff and a slew of engineers so I would even argue that a repository at >>> Github would be just as safe and well maintained as a Subversion >>> repository >>> here. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jason >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>> Jason van Zyl >>> Founder, Apache Maven >>> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational >>> and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. >>> >>> -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society >>> >>> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Jason van Zyl >> Founder, Apache Maven >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> >> the course of true love never did run smooth ... >> >> -- Shakespeare >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> > > ----- ___________________________ http://stubbisms.wordpress.com http://stubbisms.wordpress.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-GIT-as-the-canonical-repository-for-Maven-3.x-tp23201420p23227208.html Sent from the Maven Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
