Re: Why do GNOMEdevelopers almost exclusively use git mirrors and for example not bzr mirrors

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:14:50AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:35 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> > I was just wondering why many GNOME developers are using git mirror
> > and for example not a bzr mirror? If I for example read
> > http://live.gnome.org/DistributedSCM I have the feeling that bzr would
> > also be a very good fit. However I haven't seen any gnome.org project
> > in a bzr mirror while of many projects there exists git mirrors.

I've been talking with Elijah to determine what is needed in a DSCM.
Basically, Bzr should be enhanced/improved to have branches in one
checkout directory. For some reason this is important (for real
developers.. not me:). E.g. DSCM will likely mean lots of small
(private) branches; loads more than with a central system.

There are other things as well, but Git has similar drawbacks, so it
isn't Bzr specific.

Note that I look for a DSCM system, not Git. It might be Git, but I
haven't decided (DSCM development is pretty fast, so perfect system
changes pretty often).

> Well, there are bzr mirrors (I've got a few SJ branches in bzr for
> example), and don't forget the huge Launchpad mirror of GNOME.  Also,
> bzr-svn in my experience isn't as bulletproof as git-svn which has put
> me off doing all of my svn work in bzr repositories just yet.

This doesn't really matter when GNOME uses Bzr/Git/hg. Then '$RCS-svn'
link is not important anymore.

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Regards,
Olav