Comments on: Git git git

By: James Sharpe: DVCS Interoperability | c3i

James Sharpe: DVCS Interoperability | c3i — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:05:45 +0000

[...] quite clear from the various discussions related to DVCS that there isn’t going to be one clear winner for the choice of VCS for Gnome; everyone [...]

By: James’ SOC Blog » Blog Archive » DVCS Interoperability

James’ SOC Blog » Blog Archive » DVCS Interoperability — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:40:26 +0000

[...] quite clear from the various discussions related to DVCS that there isn’t going to be one clear winner for the choice of VCS for Gnome; [...]

By: ovitters

ovitters — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:23:20 +0000

S.F.: I think Bzr has several drawbacks. However, these are acknowledged by the devs, and there is a roadmap to fix those. So I don’t consider e.g. Bzr ready ATM. But that doesn’t matter, as I know it is being worked upon, and preparations take months anyway (e.g. just a distro upgrade of svn.gnome.org took a lot more preparation that you might see from the outside.. dealing with contingency, etc .. further some sysadmin stuff like switching LDAP replication methods won’t be noticed at all).

And actually, I do like the Bzr and Git mirrors for the reason that everyone could use their own tool. However, the backend (SVN) isn’t great as it doesn’t track enough information. Further, the git-svn is not at all like plain Git. While Bzr works fine (as far as I’ve experienced).

It is really unfortunate that you cannot just use your own tool.

By: S.F.

S.F. — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:52:48 +0000

Bzr people are vocal too.

As Company (otte) said, I’m fine with SVN as long as I can use git for my daily work. git-svn is a great tool, and I think that despite SVN makes everyone rant a little, switching to a VCS tool will make half of the gnome crowd rant more: there is no git-bzr tool, and I don’t know whether there is a bzr-git one (and if there is one, we should switch to git since it wouldn’t harm the bzr people )

By: sharms

sharms — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:38:42 +0000

I don’t believe you are alone in this view, the GIT people are just very vocal.

By: otte

otte — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:36:28 +0000

I don’t care if we have bzr, hg, tla, cvs or whatever else on gnome.org as long as I can use git.

I’ve only been under the impression, that you admins only wanted to support one SVCD, in which case, it obviously has to be git.

By: asdasd

asdasd — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:38:30 +0000

That was one of the weirdest postings I have seen in a long time. Keep up the work.

By: John

John — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:16:16 +0000

Great rant. Very lucid. …