On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:01 -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote: > >>> Before we do that though I was wondering what others thought about > >>> of > >>> switching to Git? > >> > >> Well, I know git is the new cool think in town. But I'm on > >> Windows, and > >> love TortoiseSvn, so I don't have any motivation to move to git > >> (lousy > >> windows support and no gui). I suppose it was easy to have some > >> git/svn > >> integration thing or some such I could be ok, but just seems like > >> extra > >> work to me for little benefit (its not like there are very many > >> committers anyway). > > > > That's fine. I'm basically neutral on the issue for now. I think it's > > beyond the "new cool thing" at this point. It's the way the tide is > > headed. But there is certainly is no rush. > > git is demon spawn - don't get sucked into the ill-thought-out fad. > Mercurial, imho, is a better way to go and I would be a big proponent > of migrating to mercurial if support was available for it on rubyforge > (*sends an email asking if/when*). -sc
Trans, I think the tide is really towards distributed version control because it makes more sense for the distributed nature of open source projects. I haven't used git at all, and I evaluated Mercurial a couple of years ago, but I personally use bazaar for my VCS needs. However, none of these have been widely used enough to get the kind of GUI integration tool support as things like CVS or SVN -- although tortoiseBZR and tortoiseHg seem to have made some good strides lately. I was recently asked about version control systems by a client, but I had to advise them to go with SVN, simply because of the GUI support on Windows. It was their only platform used for development, and the developers expected a high level of integration with their VCS. git is interesting, and seems to work well for some people (esp. the linux kernel developers), but I personally wouldn't yet recommend it for general projects. Maybe I just haven't seen convincing enough arguments beyond "Linus wrote it" and "it's used by the Linux kernel team, X.org and RoR". ;) ast -- Andrew S. Townley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://atownley.org _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
