On Jan 9, 2013, at 10:32 PM, "C. Bergstr?m" <cbergstrom at pathscale.com> wrote:

> On 01/10/13 11:23 AM, Barry Smith wrote:
>> On Jan 9, 2013, at 10:19 PM, Dmitry Karpeev<karpeev at mcs.anl.gov>  wrote:
>> 
>>> My summary would be that
>>> 1. Git's ui is bad
>>> 2. There is the crappy index thingie
>>> 3.  I don't see how git branches are better than hg bookmarks (again, the 
>>> ui is bad).
>>> 4. I still use multiple repos along with branches in git.
>>> 5. I am willing to bet money Satish will use multiple repos, rather than 
>>> branches.
>>    Thanks. This is why I want to see Jed and Satish's mapping; I don't want 
>> to change to git and then have a gotcha of "but that was easy in hg but is a 
>> big fucking pain in git and I have to do it every day".
> Everyone on this list should know this is a bikeshed discussion.  

   Ah yes, but it is my bikeshed* and I don't want to be disgruntled :-)

   Barry

* it is not really my bikeshed but everyone will be happier if I am not 
disgruntled, you don't want a disgruntled Barry

> Someone should pick something - do the migration and announce it as done if 
> possible.  Some people will be disgruntled for a while, workflows may change 
> a bit and eventually everything settles down.
> ---------------------
> +1 git
> ---------------------
> Why
>    github (project visibility, easy to fork, pull requests, features.. almost 
> all devs I know have github id and few have bitbucket)
>    More people are familiar with and using git than hg at this point
>    it's good enough
> ---------------------
> (I think git has an illogical crap way of doing some things.  I never liked 
> and still don't like git, but I've adjusted.)
> 
> /* Apologies for contributing to this bikeshed discussion */
> 
> ./C

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