[seam-dev] Mercurial vs GIT

Wed Nov 25 08:07:35 EST 2009

Another strong point for using GIT is the Gerrit source review system.
It makes contributing patches easier, and much more: it makes _applying_ those contributions even easier.

LieGrue,
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--- Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> schrieb am Mi, 25.11.2009:

> Von: Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com>
> Betreff: Re: [seam-dev] Mercurial vs GIT
> An: "Daniel Roth" <daniel at danielroth.se>
> CC: "seam-dev at lists.jboss.org" <seam-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Datum: Mittwoch, 25. November 2009, 13:43
> I can certainly see that a DVCS might
> not be a good fit for closed source / in company software
> development. All the work an engineer on the project does is
> likely to make it into the project at some point (even if
> heavily refactored), and they are unlikely to want to share
> it with many other people before it goes into VCS.
> 
> However if you consider Seam, then there are often cases
> where someone is maintaining a patch for months or even
> years against trunk which they want to easily share with
> other users. As we move towards to a more modular approach,
> this becomes even more apparent - you might want to develop
> a module outside the Seam master, and share it with the
> community. At some point we might add it to the master. I
> believe a DVCS is ideally suited to this.
> 
> Pete
> 
> On 24 Nov 2009, at 22:22, Daniel Roth wrote:
> 
> > 1) I have not tried GIT...  
> > 2) Comparing Mercurial and SVN, for me, is like
> comparing an nightmare and ease of use.
> > 
> > There is a Mercurial plugin for Eclipse, but it's
> really no good. We experienced some bugs at work with it
> (DivideByZero), submitted a patch but... Still nothing has
> happened... I've tried meld, kdiff3 and the tortoise thingy
> for windows, but still I always end up with command line
> because things don't work. Also there is really no good way
> of branching. Named branches is a MESS so even the hg team
> thinks it's better to crete to different clones and then
> manually merge them. (See their manual)
> > 
> > One other thing I'd like to say is that having a
> distr. repo may sound really fancy, but it's rarely needed.
> Although being spread over different offices all over the
> world, that feature is never really needed at my work. And
> the really really really few times it is, you could just as
> well make an ordinary patch, and give it to the other
> person. However, there have been many times when hours has
> been wasted when trying to resolve issues when two people
> have worked in our root repo at the same time.
> > 
> > Just my 10 öre... 
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Stuart Douglas
> <stuart at baileyroberts.com.au>
> wrote:
> > As I understand it GIT support on windows is not good,
> and also just having a quick google around it looks like the
> tooling support is not very mature either. Also the commands
> are different to subversions commands so there is quite a
> steep learning curve.
> > I like bazaar, it uses the same commands as
> subversion, works on all platforms and has eclipse and
> windows support. It also has launchpad, which is the bzr
> equivalent of github.
> > 
> > Stuart
> > ________________________________________
> > From: seam-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org
> [seam-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org]
> On Behalf Of Francisco Jose Peredo [franciscoperedo at tabasco.gob.mx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 1:17 AM
> > To: seam-dev at lists.jboss.org
> > Cc: weld-dev at lists.jboss.org
> > Subject: Re: [seam-dev] Mercurial vs GIT
> > 
> > I have not tried GIT, but from what I have read it is
> pretty complicated
> > to learn to use...
> > OTOH I have tried Mercurial, which is also
> distributed, and found it
> > confortable... apparently the
> > way it deals with its distribute nature is easier for
> subversion users
> > to understand...
> > AFAIK Netbeans source code is in Mercurial, also
> OpenJDK... So it seems
> > to work
> > well with large code bases... and there are plugins
> for Netbeans,
> > Eclipse and the Tortoise Hg
> > project is advanced and usable...
> > Google Code offers free Mercurial hosting...
> > Why not Mercurial?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Pete Muir escribió:
> > > A quick item we discussed at the f2f meeting was
> whether to switch to
> > > GIT for our SCM, rather than SVN.
> > >
> > > This would give us a IMO a system well suited to
> our distribued dev
> > > model, it would also make it much easier for
> others to sandbox PEs and
> > > then contribute them back to us.
> > >
> > > The proposal is to use Github to host.
> > >
> > > The team members at devoxx were in favour, but
> what do others think?
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
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