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On 28.04.2014 22:42, Adrien Nader wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014, Matthew Brett wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:04 AM, John E. / TDM <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 4/28/2014 5:17 AM, JonY wrote:
>>>> mingw-w64 may migrate from svn to git in the future, seeing that sf 
>>>> can now do multiple repos per project.
>>> *snip*
>>>> Discuss.
>>> 
>>> I'm a bit surprised at the choice of Git -- in my experience, Windows
>>>  developers usually prefer Mercurial (<http://mercurial.selenic.com/>)
>>>  because on Windows it is more lightweight and performant than Git.
>>> 
>>> I also prefer Mercurial to Git because I find its syntax and workflow
>>>  more intuitive. This is of course personal taste.
>>> 
>>> Mercurial repositories are also available in SourceForge. But if the 
>>> primary MinGW-w64 contributors are all more familiar with Git then I 
>>> suppose it shall be Git.
>>> 
>>> My two cents. :)
>> 
>>> From the sidelines - a big yes please for switching to git.  In my
>> experience, the ease of git branching makes it far more comfortable 
>> making and proposing changes, even substantial changes.
>> 
>> I hear the same is true of mercurial, but I know it much less well.
>> 
>> I very much like the github pull-request system for code review - does 
>> sourceforge have something similar?  I know bitbucket does.  For the 
>> projects I'm involved in, pull requests make proposing changes very 
>> fluid, and they are good for recording discussion as well.
> 
> I quite dislike github and its UI in particular. Uses flash on every page 
> (no idea what for) and lots of javascript which makes my laptop heat and 
> get noisy when displaying something as small as a 3-lines diff.
> 
> Anyway, is there an advantage github's pages over doing it on the 
> mailing-list like it is currently done? The amount of messages which
> comes from that doesn't seem to be an issue.

You can do pull-requests with mailing lists [1]

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6235379


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