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

[Filippos Karapetis]

Well, git is still problematic under Windows (and probably under exotic platforms such as AmigaOS). So, although it does have many strengths, the focus it has on *nix platforms is a bit minus, imho. Plus, Mercurial does have the aforementioned ability, if I'm not mistaken.

In the end of the day, branching doesn't happen very often in ScummVM (i.e. once every 6 months for releases and once every year for GSoC), so that's probably not the killer feature that will urge us move on to git...

Come to think of it, apart from offline commits, I don't see a real reason for change, perhaps someone could enlighten us more on the potential benefits of such a move?

Regards
Filippos


> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:54:08 +0300
> From: knakos at phys.uoa.gr
> To: max at quendi.de
> CC: scummvm-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Scummvm-devel] Switching from SVN to git, mercurial or bazaar
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Max Horn wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> git is the choice I support here and by the way I strongly support 
> scrapping subversion altogether (no git-svn). For me, the 
> distributed/offline capabilities are an added bonus. What is really cool 
> and powerful though in native git is the branching and merging via the 
> non-linear commit history. This is a great feature indeed (and some of 
> us have painful memories of svn merging) when you're working at more 
> than one thing at a time. Let's go for it!
> 
> Cheers,
> Kostas
> 
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