On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Sebastien Douche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 00:13, Jacob Hallén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There are, in my opinion, 3 viable choices of DVCS for PyPy: >> >> - git >> >> - hg (mercurial) >> >> - bzr > > Hi there :) > >> I think they would all be an improvement over SVN and they all have their >> strengths and weaknesses. In favour of bzr and hg is the fact that they are >> written in Python, with core parts in C. Git is all C. Git currently requires >> a cygwin environment to run on Windows, hg and bzr appear to have native >> windows versions. Git is the fastest of the lot with hg in second place. Bzr >> is still a fair bit slower, though this is being worked on. Hg is really good >> at keeping the repositories small, with git in second place. > > Excellent quick guide : http://www.infoq.com/articles/dvcs-guide > >> The strongest argument in favour of git seems to me to be the rebase feature, >> which allows one to make a branch for a new feature, work on the branch and >> then update the base of the branch to branch off at a later point in time. I >> haven't identified this feature in hg and bzr, but then I haven't read all >> the documentation in detail. > > Don't miss "extensions" (but these are officials, include in core): > > - Bisec > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/BisectExtension > > - Graph log (show grah of the tree, "ascii art") > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/GraphlogExtension > > - Hgk (same above, but with tcl/tk, copy of git's one) > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/HgkExtension > > - Mq (wonderfull Hg version of "quilt', must have!) > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MqExtension > > - Rebase (warning: available only to the next stable version) > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/RebaseExtension > > - Transplant ("transplant" patches from another branch or repositor) > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/TransplantExtension > >> The one feature of svn that we would miss is the inclusion of foreign version >> controlled trees, like we do with the pylib tree. > > Do you means externals? The features provided by externals in > Subversion are not currently available in Mercurial, > NestedRepositories is a proposal to integrate this extension into > Mercurial: > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/NestedRepositories
And here is a translation table to git if you later decide (like us:) that git is better for you: http://wiki.sympy.org/wiki/Git_hg_rosetta_stone Also git has the excellent "git svn", so you can use git with pypy right now and commit using svn (git svn dcommit). Ondrej _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
