Hi Travis, On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Travis E. Oliphant <oliph...@enthought.com> wrote: > > FYI from PyCon > > Here at PyCon, it has been said that Python will be moving towards DVCS > and will be using bzr or mecurial, but explicitly *not* git. It would > seem that *git* got the "lowest" score in the Developer survey that > Brett Cannon did.
It is interesting how those tools are viewed so differently in different communities. I am too quite doubtful about the validity of those surveys :) > The reasons seem to be: > > * git doesn't have good Windows clients Depending on what is meant by good windows client (GUI, IDE integration), it is true, but then neither do bzr or hg have good clients, so I find this statement a bit strange. What is certainly true is that git developers care much less about windows than bzr (and hg ?). For example, I would guess git will never care much about case insensitive fs, etc... (I know bzr developers worked quite a bit on this). > * git is not written with Python I can somewhat understand why it matters to python, but does it matter to us ? There are definitely strong arguments against git - but I don't think being written in python is a strong one. The lack of a good window support is a good argument against changing from svn, but very unconvincing compared to other tools. Git has now so much more manpower compared to hg and bzr (many more project use it: the list of visible projects using git is becoming quite impressive) - from a 3rd party POV, I think git is much better set up than bzr and hg. Gnome choosing git could be significant (they made the decision a couple of days ago). > I think the sample size was pretty small to be making decisions on > (especially when most opinions where "un-informed"). Most people just choose the one they first use. Few people know several DVCS. Pauli and me started a page about arguments pro/cons git - it is still very much work in progress: http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/GitMigrationProposal Since few people are willing to try different systems, we also started a few workflows (compared to svn): http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/GitWorkflow FWIW, I have spent some time to look at converting svn repo to git, with proper conversion of branches, tags, and other things. I have converted my own scikits to git as a first trial (I have numpy converted as well, but I did not put it anywhere to avoid confusion). This part of the problem would be relatively simple to handle. cheers, David _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
