[Scummvm-devel] Switching from SVN to git, mercurial or bazaar

[Max Horn]

Hi folks,

recently, SF.net added support for git, mercurial, and bazaar, three  
so-called "distributed version control systems" (DVCS). In the past  
months, several of us (wjp, Eugene, myself, ...) experimented with  
using git via the "git-svn" bridge.

Overall, these DVCS have some really nice advantages. Like, they  
allowed Eugene to continue working while he was on "vacation" (man,  
Eugene, I hope your family still likes you... :). I.e. you can prepare  
several commits locally (and "massage" them before going public --  
like merging or reordering "local" commits). These tools also make  
branching super-trivial.

All in all, I am interested in moving ScummVM from SVN to one of  
these. For now, I have the most experience with git, but I wouldn't  
exclude the others as possibilities.

About the only problems I foresee are (a) Windows support for non- 
cygwin users, and (b) the fact that people will have to learn a new  
system, which is more powerful but hence also slightly more  
complicated... Although i find that after some learning time, I really  
prefer git over SVN for working on ScummVM :).


Let the flamewar, err, discussion begin :)


Cheers,
Max