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

[Filippos Karapetis]

Hotmail ate the message I typed (I hate them).

Summarizing: git is in its infancy under Windows, whereas both
Mercurial and Bazaar are written in Python, which makes them really cross-
platform. There is documentation on all 3, and I'd like to test them all
before reaching a conclusion. At a first glance, Mercurial and Bazaar
are clear winners over git concerning cross-platform availability, though
git is much more well-known and spread. Mercurial is used by the people
at Mozilla and Python, which means that it's quite powerful, if projects
like that are using it. 

All in all, I think we should move on to a DVCS system, but it won't
be as easy as switching from CVS to SVN... Right now, I'm in favor
of Mercurial and Bazaar, purely for their ability to run under anything
supporting Python.

Does anyone know of test repositories to test the 3 systems? Otherwise
I'll have to install their servers locally and experiment...

Regards
Filippos


> From: max at quendi.de
> To: scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 18:57:58 +0200
> Subject: [Scummvm-devel] Switching from SVN to git, mercurial or bazaar
> 
> 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
> 
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