Remember too, that Github has a point-and-click native app for mac and windows, 
if anyone is worried about a learning curve on git :P  

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On Monday, December 17, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Adam Davison wrote:

> I don't have too much experience with git. But my experience with bzr
> was all negative. The learning curve was very steep. I always got the
> feeling that you needed to understand a great deal of the internal
> workings in order to understand what command you should run.
>  
> When we swtiched it was my first experience with DVCS. I understood
> the whole DVCS aspect of it but things like there multiple unintuitive
> commands (pull, branch and clone spring to mind, which do you want
> from the name?). Then I need to know whether to commit or push, which
> requires me to remember what I did last time.
>  
> Part of this is because I never used it heavily but this is probably a
> pretty good snapshot of the experience many new developers would face.
>  
> On 17 December 2012 16:29, Daniel Schürmann <dasch...@mixxx.org 
> (mailto:dasch...@mixxx.org)> wrote:
> > Hi RJ, Hi All
> >  
> > "bzr vs. git" if you ask Google you find a lot of pros and cons for both.
> >  
> > I personal like the IMO easy "commit / update" scheme from SVN. Every time I
> > use git it is hard for me to understand what will happen.
> > But I am willing to learn. :-)
> >  
> > I think you listed pros and cons are valid for us.
> > And I am sure git is much better than bzr, but its harder to use for new
> > user.
> >  
> > Launchpad makes a good job in clarity and has an outstanding bug management.
> > It should be well thought if we move away and give up this one stop
> > provider.
> >  
> > I have recently worked with cinnamon on GitHub. It is very hard to get an
> > overview of the project
> > You can compare for instance:
> > https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon
> > http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/
> >  
> > Do you have experiences with tools like bzr-git and git-bzr?
> >  
> > One minor issue with is the non consecutive version number of git. I there
> > an easy way to generate a revision counter with git?
> >  
> > I have not exactly get your point why code review with GitHub is that much
> > faster.?
> >  
> > I support the Idea to set up a git mirror. This is in any case good idea to
> > test how it will feel and a good first step.
> > But for now I would prefer to have our trunk (master branch) at Launchpad.
> >  
> > Kind regards,
> >  
> > Daniel
> >  
> > PS: Sorry for the empty mail.
> >  
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> > 2012/12/16 Neale Pickett <ne...@woozle.org (mailto:ne...@woozle.org)>
> > >  
> > > +1 I'm a fan of git; bzr confuses me.
> > >  
> > > Consider gitorious instead of GitHub, though. Gitorious releases 100%
> > > of the source code used to run the site, and is very FOSS oriented,
> > > while GitHub uses proprietary software and is interested in you paying
> > > money for project hosting.
> > >  
> > >  
> > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:46:34 -0500
> > > RJ Ryan <rr...@mixxx.org (mailto:rr...@mixxx.org)> wrote:
> > >  
> > > > Here's a thought. What if we moved our repos to git and hosted on
> > > > GitHub? We would use Launchpad for project management (bugs, specs,
> > > > milestones, etc) and GitHub for code and code review.
> > > >  
> > > > PRO:
> > > >  
> > > > - GitHub's web-based code review tool is getting better by the day.
> > > > - git has 'won' the battle of the DVCS's.
> > > > - git is lightning fast in contrast to bazaar
> > > > - GitHub has a very slick web interface for browsing code
> > > > - Contributors submit pull requests instead of patches. This way
> > > > they get their names in the commit log as the committer. This makes
> > > > attribution and copyright ownership easier to track.
> > > > - lightweight branches
> > > > - Launchpad supports pulling code / branch info from an external
> > > > git tree so code.launchpad.net/mixxx (http://code.launchpad.net/mixxx) 
> > > > won't be totally useless.
> > > >  
> > > >  
> > > > CON:
> > > >  
> > > > - Git is harder to use than Bazaar. Developers not familiar will
> > > > have to learn.
> > > > - Work involved in migrating scripts, build server, build system,
> > > > etc.
> > > > - Issue tracker is fledgling. We should only use GitHub for code
> > > > and code review, not for issues or wiki.
> > > > - lightweight branches -- need to hack scons to do per-branch
> > > > object file folders or else you will be re-building the world all
> > > > over the place.
> > > > - No link from GitHub commits to LP bugs other than in commit
> > > > description. IMO not a big deal.
> > > >  
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >  
> > > > In general these are the points that I think really matter:
> > > >  
> > > > * Code review : I spend a lot of time reviewing code and patch
> > > > submissions. I would switch to GitHub for this alone. If it made me
> > > > spend half as much time reviewing code as I do now that would be a
> > > > huge savings and would free time for me to do other things.
> > > >  
> > > > * Speed. I'm so fed up with Bazaar's slowness and I'm sure you are
> > > > too.
> > > >  
> > > > * Developer mindshare is in Git, we are potentially missing out on
> > > > contributions due to our tools (scons, bzr) being unfamiliar.
> > > >  
> > > > * The tooling in the git community is way better than Bazaar.
> > > >  
> > > > Another option is to setup a mirror of bzr on GitHub.
> > >  
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