On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:18:15 -0700 Alex Ionescu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Michael B. Trausch > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The big players ATM in DVCS are git and Bazaar, though. (And hg, > > mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is also written in Python and > > so it is just as portable as Bazaar is, though I don't know of > > terribly many projects using it). If you switched to bzr, you'd > > Bazaar is a toy, I'm surprised you've "never heard" of anyone using > hg... > Not sure why you thought I'd said that. Sun uses it (as well as Bazaar), and the Mozilla project uses it. That doesn't count for terribly many projects. Most that I know of are actually using git or Bazaar, or looking at both as options in planned migrations from their centralized VCSs. It's also largely command-line compatible with svn, which is what I used to use for all of my projects, and some of my clients still do. It can also work with a Subversion checkout directly, though I do not use it in this manner; I do use it as a client to Subversion servers though. Of my clients that have migrated from using Subversion to Bazaar, I can say that they have been happy with the additional flexibility that they've been able to gain from it, and there is very little of a learning curve. For a "toy", it's about the most friendly tool I've come across. The CLI feels very natural (especially coming from a background with svn) and that includes its branching model. It does its job well and stays out of the way, which is what I think any good VCS tool should do. I wouldn't say that its performance matches git's, but it's nowhere close to what I would call "bad", either. Monotone wins that award by a mile, at least in my recallable experience. That said, it was just a suggestion. Bazaar is hardly a toy, though. I'd recommend spending some time checking it out and working with it before making such a harsh accusation against it. I've no complaints in performance or ease of use/ease of learning. Indeed, I cannot say that I have any at all, other than there are still too many open projects that aren't using any form of DVCS at all. ;-) --- Mike _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
