On 2010-06-22 at 22:31:22 [+0200], Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > With any of git or mercurial, I'd suggest to keep the central repository > approach, but additionally give every developer the chance to create a > clone from the central repo in his home folder (which would then be part of > the backup scheme). > This way, everyone could experiment in his own repo or commit directly into > the central repo. While that sounds good, wouldn't it dramatically increase disk usage (beyond what is currently available)? > Anyway, I'd like to hear any input on whether or not we should drop > subversion and, if so, which way we should go. +1 for moving to a distributed VCS. I haven't worked much with either git or hg, but the revision numbers are definitely a plus for hg in my book. CU, Ingo