Dmitry Zuikov schrieb: >> Among the many DVCS there seem to be 3 prominent ones: git, hg and >> bzr. Anyone would probably work but my favorite is bzr. It's easy >> to install and use. Launchpad also has a nice feature that a user >> can create his personal "feature" branch of a project and the >> project page will show all these too. Making it easy to merge and >> to get an overview for everyone. > > Will the community stuffs also migrate to launchpad? The maillist, > wiki, issue tracker?
no. launchpad does not yet provide all needed services (wiki, homepage). > And just for notice. We have used bazaar for the couple of years, but > now we use git for all out projects, because of it's speed and cheap > branches feature. shouldn't branches also be cheap with bzr's shared repositories? git seems to win most speed contests, but revision control is not all about speed. while i did not work extensively with git, the others have felt to be easier to use and the gui front-ends are more appealing. unfortunately you can't make everyone happy by choosing one of the popular DVCS :/ > On the project like the mspgcc the bzr will be considerably slower > than git. mspgcc isn't that big and i will try to clean up the branches as currently they contain all sorts of sub-projects. that's because historically the CVS sf.net service offered only one repository. i think the no longer used sub-projects like the binutils directory should be removed from the new branches. it's now maintained as patch. there are some other tools that could go standalone. the old CVS repository can be kept as archive, so no history is really lost. chris
