Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Boris Pek wrote:

 I don't want to learn GIT right now. Is there someplace I could stay with
svn?

Maybe it was the sign to learn something new? =)

Git and Mercurial are really great DVCS. They are very suitable for small
projects with small developers group.

Subversion is more suitable for extremely big projects with strict hierarchy.
Or for repos with a lot of binary files.

Bazaar is something terrible designed. But some people use it...

Of course, I'll disagree about Bazaar there. I think it's actually the most
user friendly of the bunch, and totally up to the task of hosting your
projects. I use it for almost all of mine. I also think that it has
workflows and command lines that will feel fairly natural and similar to you
as a Subversion user. Don't dismiss it out of hand. (It also has a bzr-svn
plugin for bridging between the two vcs's.)

I am most definitely *not* interested in getting into a flame war about
version control systems. If you don't like Bazaar, fine, YMMV. If you have
technical questions, I'm happy to answer them as best I can, or point you to
other forums that can help you.

Cheers,
-Barry






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On 10/18/2011 11:44 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:

On Oct 18, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Boris Pek wrote:
Of course, I'll disagree about Bazaar there. I think it's actually the most
user friendly of the bunch, and totally up to the task of hosting your
projects. I use it for almost all of mine. I also think that it has
workflows and command lines that will feel fairly natural and similar to you
as a Subversion user. Don't dismiss it out of hand. (It also has a bzr-svn
plugin for bridging between the two vcs's.)

I am most definitely *not* interested in getting into a flame war about
version control systems. If you don't like Bazaar, fine, YMMV. If you have
technical questions, I'm happy to answer them as best I can, or point you to
other forums that can help you.

Cheers,
-Barry

Not getting into any war, but it seems 90% of everyone thinks Git is a way
better than BZR, and that the 10% that remains are BZR extremists. Since
VCS is all about sharing your sources (unless you don't care about others
and sees it as only a history/backup of your work), you'd better not be too
annoying for the vast majority of your VCS users.

Thomas


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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:

Not getting into any war, but it seems 90% of everyone thinks Git is a way
better than BZR, and that the 10% that remains are BZR extremists. Since
VCS is all about sharing your sources (unless you don't care about others
and sees it as only a history/backup of your work), you'd better not be too
annoying for the vast majority of your VCS users.

I think it's more like "100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first
because anything after that is different". For the most part I believe
git, mercurial and bzr can all talk to each other so your argument is
less valid than it might be.

Cheers,

Roger


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Roger Light writes:

I think it's more like "100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first
because anything after that is different".

Nope. Used svk first, then arch, then used bzr extensively for a while,
and then learned Git and switched everything else over to it as soon as
possible.

Russ Allbery () <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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Russ Allbery writes:

Roger Light writes:

> I think it's more like "100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first
> because anything after that is different".

Nope. Used svk first, then arch, then used bzr extensively for a while,
and then learned Git and switched everything else over to it as soon as
possible.

Similar story here. I learned Arch, then svk, then Mercurial, then
Bazaar, then Darcs, then Git.

Bazaar is the clear winner from my perspective and I migrate everything
to it wherever I have that authority.

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