Re: Switching CEDET from CVS to a Distributed VCS.

[David Bernard <david.bernard.31@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

If you choose git. I suggest to use http://github.com to host a "central"
version :
* provide documentation for newbee (step by step to create your project,...)
* an interesting feature :
** "committers" could easily work on branch
** non-committers could easily fork project in there own space and propose
patch/branch,...
* ...
Than using git or mercurial on sourceforge.

One year ago, I request the List project to move from subversion (hosted by
google) to DVCS (I used mercurial at work (choose by me 1.5 years ago)),
without success but after a discussion and an overview of github the lead
start learning git an move the project to github.

I use mercurial day to day at office and git/github for my oss project.
IMHO : the main difference are :
* mercurial works on Windows (easily)
* git manage named branches (at office we decided to use 2 mercurial
repositories to manage project (wip and release) instead of 2 branches,
because working with branches in mercurial is more error prone)

second level differences :
* git allow you to keep changes from an other repository without required
that your repository is full commited (no pending changes). mercurial need
extension to provide similar job
* git could compress/strip history

my 2cents (I'm not a CEDET nor emacs contributor)

note : on github, projects are not group by "projects" but by owner, eg: my
own http://github.com/davidB

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 04:40, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> > Alex, as I said before I do not know much at all about version control
> > system. However even from my limited understanding of this I still
> > can't find room for arguments for using something else than Bazaar for
> > CEDET. Will not using something else than Bazaar put an extra burdon
> > on Eric?
>
> Sure, although if say git were sufficiently better than bazaar, that
> might be offset by a more pleasant time when actually developing the
> project.  I personally use git locally even when upstream uses some
> other VCS, simply because it's much, much, better than them, and the
> annoyance of the extra syncing step is offset by far more facile
> operation for the bulk of my development work (merging/syncing
> consumes a relatively small proportion of my "VCS time").
>
> [When emacs switches to bazaar, I'll probably try to find a git/bazaar
> gateway so I can use git locally.]
>
> Bazaar is, mostly likely, better than CVS however.
>
> -Miles
>
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