Re: [lwip-devel] Mercurial... or GIT

[Alain M.]

Simon Kallweit escreveu:
> > > The real gain with mercurial is that local branching is really easy.
> > > If you implement a new feature, just create a new branch. [...]
> >
> > Isn't that the cas with GIT too?
>
> It's the case with all DVCS, so yes, it's also the case with git. I 
> don't yet have much experience with git though, so I favored for 
> mercurial, which I think will become pretty widespread over time.

I don't have much experience with VCS, except a litttle with SVN...

But I have come to the imprression that things are divided in two:

1) before GIT: lots of alternatives were emerging, as none was not good 
enough in many different aspects
2) after GIT: there is a good enough DVCS and as better interfaces begun 
to spring, more and more projects are migrating to GIT.

Probably GIT is the one with the biggest growth of all VCS ;-)

Genarally, in the Open Source world, many projects get stuck because of 
too few mantainers (see Slakware for one). Another aspect is that the 
Mercurial people may have a good importing tool from CVS, mut most 
probably no-one will have a good importing tool FROM Mercurial. So IMHO 
there is a distinct possibility of getting stuck in Mercurial... Bazaar 
could only be ok because Canonical was using it...

Alain