On Sun, 01 May 2011 02:36:16 +0200, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm still interested in what the committee has to say, but I have an idea/suggestion. Since the choice seems to be between Git and Mercurial at this point, what if we made the main repo a Git repo and then for those people who really prefer Mercurial they could use Hg-Git
I don't have any experience with Hg-Git, but I would expect some trouble with this. Wouldn't it be better to decide on one of the two?
Then there is really nothing to decide. Of course hg-git may not yet work in Haiku, but if there are people who really want hg I'm sure it could be ported. Though from what I understand it is pure Python so if we get our Python port at 100% (or close enough), it should work. In fact the latter (Python not yet at 100%) is a big, big downside of Mercurial. Git works 100% (or close) on Haiku AFAIK.
It would be very nice to have git gui and gitk available though. Of course, we don't have any graphical tools for SVN either, but I think these can help a lot to lower the complexity barrier of a DVCS.
These would require a port of Tk to Haiku. I'm not sure how much work this would be. Maybe someone with a clue can comment?
Best regards, Brecht
