Re: should we use bazaar?

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 20:02 +0700, Chanwit Kaewkasi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I switched to bazaar, then I've recently switcted again to git.
> I'm currently using git (cygwin on Windows). It's working very well in
> the terms of speed and interoperability with SVN.
>
> Git is a bit more complex than Bazaar, but it's really fast and
> amazing VCS software.

s/a bit/vastly/p

Git is faster than Bazaar (and Mercurial) in most cases.

> Russel mentioned somethings not good about bazaar-SVN interop in this
> list as well.
> I've faced that problem, so I decided to try Git.

Because I asked (often and regularly :-)  Jelmer Vernooij, the person
responsible for bzr-svn is adding a dpush command to Bazaar.  This will
give exactly the same lightweight Subversion interaction capability that
Git has.  Actually this will make Bazaar vastly more functional than Git
at working with Subversion repositories.  He plans to land it in 0.4.12
so it should be with us shortly.

I know I keep going on about it but I want to make sure there is no
misinformation:  if all you want to do is have a Subversion client that
allows experimental branching and offline commits, then Git is good and
Bazaar is good.  I prefer Bazaars command set and GUI tools, but Git can
do the job.

If we are looking at a long term plan to shift from Subversion to a
DVCS, and I think we should at the earliest possible opportunity, then
it has to be one of Bazaar, Git or Mercurial with the biggest factor
being whatever Codehaus supports.  I would vote for Bazaar, I could live
with Mercurial, I am not sure I would like it if we went with Git.

--
Russel.
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