Matthew Toseland schrieb:
> Which DSCM should we switch to? Last time we discussed this, we decided on 
> mercurial (hg). We need a decision in the near future - it has dragged out 
> for 6 months due to technical and communication problems, but nextgens is 
> able and willing to implement a change in the near future. Ian has suggested 
> that we need to re-evaluate the decision. So, we will take a vote of 
> developers active in the last 6 months - and if nobody votes, I'll choose.
> 
> The reasons we chose hg previously:
> - It has a better HTTP transport.
> - It has better Java support : in particular, netbeans has integrated and 
> well 
> supported hg support.
> - It has better Windows support : mainstream hg runs on Windows, while there 
> are Windows Git clients.
> 
> Both hg and git have been demonstrated to work over Freenet. Git seems to 
> need 
> a bit more help than hg does.
> 
> At least four developers and at least one third party have been maintaining 
> their own svn-to-git repositories based on remotely importing the official 
> tree, this is one of many reasons to use a DSCM:
> - Better offline commit support.
> - Better redundancy and security in general.
> - Better integration with anonymous development (subject to the caveat that 
> we 
> must be sure something is the contributor's own work).
> 
> In order to get a clear-cut decision, I have set an arbitrary deadline of the 
> end of Tuesday the 7th of April. This will only be extended in *exceptional* 
> circumstances.
> 
> So if you have an opinion, please reply to this thread. If you qualify as a 
> developer active in the last 6 months, then please indicate your vote - you 
> can change it right up to the deadline.

i vote for git.

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