[haiku-development] Re: Proposal: Moving away from Subversion
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:57:33 +0200
Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So far, I heard good reasons to choose hg over git, but, besides
> > the
> > network problems Andreas mentioned (that Siarzhuk had with git as
> > well,
> > though), I haven't heard anything yet that would make git a better
> > choice than hg.
> Actually, the best choice would seem to be bzr right now ... It has a
> feature for a local repository to be bound to the central repository,
> meaning that a local commit would also go directly to the central
> repository. Most changes to the Haiku codebase are of that type I
> think. If one then wants to work on a local branch, it is a simple
> 'unbind' command, work locally, and then bind again to share the
> changes.
>
> From a feature point of view it seems that bzr might be a good
> candidate, because it efficiently mimics Subversion's repository <->
> working copy relation while also providing tools for working locally.
> This IMO is a very definite characteristic of our current development
> process, and one that we should keep.
Agreed, bazaar doesn't look bad - the only downside I found is that it
cannot track file copies, ie. the history will be lost when copying
files; the copied file will just be a new file with no history.
Not sure if that's really that bad, though. The rest seems to be very
comparable to hg.
Bye,
Axel.
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