On 8/6/07, Fred B fredb7@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/6/07, Jacob Rus jacobolus@gmail.com wrote:
Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
Without wishing to turn this into a which scm is best discussion, Git isn't the easiest system for non-technical users to learn - it is aimed at power users. You may end up with a situation where using the version control is harder then creating the bundle. (..)
Git has been improving very rapidly though. It is vastly easier for normal (non-power-) users than it was a year ago, and I imagine it will be still better in another year. I don't know if you've tried Git recently; if not you should give it a try. If you stick to the basics, I'd say it's about as easy as SVN. But there's of course a lot of extra power there too, if you want it.
-Jacob
There has been a lot of hype about Git lately and I don't understand why. I'm glad Allan consider Mercurial too, unfortunately some people respond "Ok, let's use Git". ;)
I'm surprised you took that as an attack on mercurial as an option both are fast moving projects and what is true today probably will change at least a little over the next few months. There are plenty of reasons Git has "buz" and it isn't a negative thing. Likewise for Mercurial, I don't see as much here but it is definitely buzzing in the same sense. In fact, I think those communities seem to be growing with each other swapping ideas back and forth while pushing things like performance to a new level.
I don't think any decision would really please everyone but one idea I did have was the possibility of mirroring between a few different options using a tool like taylor. It might not solve the issue of decreased admin effort though... maybe a volunteer system to support certain gateways from one to another might work?
I do have to say that I am glad to see the option of distributed bundle management. I've always had issues managing my own private changes to grammars and such with subversion (I could never get svk working well). Some of the branching and merging capabilities of some of these tools will certainly be welcome.
Brian.