On Tuesday 03 August 2010, Dr Nathan Hurst elucidated thus: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:26:40PM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > Please understand: this is not, by any means, meant to start a Holy > > War (TM). I'm *just asking.* > > > > Are there any plans to move OWFS from CVS to something like > > Subversion or even better (IMHO) git, or even Mercurial? > > > > I've used both Subversion and git for quite a few years and have > > found both of them a pleasure to work with. Git, especially, has > > just powerful (yet easy) support for branching and merging it's > > almost effortless. > > IMHO: > > I've found git hard for new developers to get used to, ditto bzr. > svn is still the best choice for projects with small code bases like > owfs. I think it is more important to provide a soft landing for > newbies than for the more powerful distributed features and branching > provided by other systems. > > Another FS project I'm involved in switched from svn to bzr and we're > still trying to iron out issues. > > 1 vote for svn :)
I'll agree with you: git *can be* very confusing for a newbie. However, 1) the recent versions of git are *greatly* improved, and 2) for a project that uses git in a "central repository" way, there are (off the top of my head) four commands or so that a newbie would need to know about and use to clone/branch/edit/pull updates/push. OK, so five commands. They could be very easily summarized on the "getting the code" page. The primary reason *I* lean toward git is simplicity of branching and merging. When you branch, you don't create another copy of your entire code base, and when you merge, it is literally effortless. Just my 0.02 monetary units. j -- Joshua J. Kugler - Fairbanks, Alaska Azariah Enterprises - Programming and Website Design [email protected] - Jabber: [email protected] PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
