Re: Git or Mercurial?

David Goodger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.user
Message-ID <CABiJP=Kshs0XwZvKe-7a7wiSMpskUaY1DpahyghsdAME4h7zkQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Marc Abramowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone suggested moving from Subversion to Git or Mercurial?
>
> Most Python projects use one of those two and usually either GitHub or
> Bitbucket, because it makes collaboration a lot easier.
>
> Has it come up before?

Many times; see the mailing list archives for this list and
Docutils-develop. I'm not averse to switching, it just has to be done
properly and completely with minimal perturbation. Mercurial is my
preference, because it's written and extensible in Python, and because
I find Git slightly harder to use (although much better than it used
to be).

Docutils pre-dates widespread DVCS use. Once you're set up and used to
SVN, the cost of switching outweighs the benefits, at least in the
short term. And I don't drink the "switch to Github and prepare for a
deluge of pull requests" koolaid.

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

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