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[python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Sat Feb 28 10:09:19 CET 2009 
What's Hg:s story on Svn integration? To what extent can you use it with a
Svn master repo?

(Btw, I would have said that Git is probably the one that's moving the
fastest right now, and where the most interesting work is being done - but
their Windows story is a tragedy (at least last time I checked) and I agree
that the portions of the "community" that shows up in public places isn't
always helping... I'm also a big fan of dogfooding, so picking a good-enough
Python-powered Vcs definitely makes sense to me. If we need to pick one,
that is. I'm still not convinced...)

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On Feb 28, 2009 1:06 AM, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Sean Reifschneider <jafo at tummy.com> wrote:
> But, I did want to say...
Thanks to Brett in deed.

Would it help if I made a pronouncement? Let me express my personal
feelings. Note that I can still be swayed many ways, so don't consider
this a pronouncement, but perhaps it can serve as a catalyst for the
decision making process.

- Mercurial: IMO we can't go wrong with this. I've tried it a bit for
small projects, and it's very easy to learn for a SVN user. I've
talked to Bryan O'Sullivan, and I'm impressed by the customer list,
which includes Mozilla and Sun.

-  Bazaar: Probably okay, but I'm lukewarm about it. It is also
apparently still slower than Hg. It is married to Launchpad whose UI
continues to confuse and frustrate me (e.g. why is the "report a bug"
link so much more prominent on the overview page than the "download"
link?). I also am a little worried that Canonical is a little too
eager to get us as a "high profile customer". The good news is that
Bzr and Hg are so compatible that Bzr fans will be able to use Bzr
even if the master repository (probably on Benjamin's hard drive :-)
uses Hg.

- Keeping Subversion: This would sadden me, because merging really
sucks, even with the 1.5 merge tracking feature.

- Git: Too complex, and I've heard that a negative attitude prevails
in the Git  community.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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