Re: cvs->git?

So to sum up my impression of your replies:

- There is no strong desire to change the version control, mainly
  because the pkgsrc users do not see much benefit of doing it

- But the users are open to adopt it as long as NetBSD project switches
  from CVS to something else

Two additional notes:

- I would definitely benefit from any decentralized VCS. At work I
  cannot use 'cvs up' because of a firewall... so I have to stupidly
  download the pkgsrc-wip-snapshot and unpack... every time I want to
  update. Instead I could update from a git-repo from my other site very
  easily...

- Still thinking over the problem of the very limited pkgsrc
  (and NetBSD) community. I don't dare to claim a faster VCS would flood
  the project with new developers, but I believe it is one of the most
  significant obstacles. When a Linux-bored guy checks NetBSD and sees
  quite a messy web-site, he may hesitate, but finding out it is all
  CVS-based - what? Sorry, bye. (What a pity for him, and for us!)

Best,

JS

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 15:44:21 +0200
Peter Bex <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 03:22:30PM +0200, Jan Šmydke wrote:
> > 4. I don't like git. It takes a while to get used to its concept
> > and to find and memorize just a few commands one need.
> > 
> > On the other hand, it is perhaps the only system applicable for
> > pkgsrc stuff these days (svn may be OK - but it's just an improved
> > CVS; mercurial has wrong concept in my view; darcs is COOL but
> > portability is POOR and the performance too; monotone or bzr...
> > hardly) Git is really fast and efficient.
> > 
> > But CVS is even harder to use than git (I use it only for pkgsrc
> > and do not understand it). (May be a question of a particular
> > opinion)
> 
> CVS is what's used by NetBSD itself.  I think it's fair to assume
> people using NetBSD will at least be familiar with it.
> 
> There is also experimentation being done for NetBSD with Fossil
> (fossil-scm.org) pkgsrc-wip could be a good place to further this
> experimentation. Fossil also is very small and has zero dependencies,
> whereas git has quite a lot of obnoxious dependencies.
> 
> Perhaps ASau or someone involved with this Fossil stuff could pitch
> in?
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter


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