New VCS Choice; SCM SIG

[Francois Romieu]

Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> :
[...]
> already using Mercurial. Also see 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl

FWIW:

Mercurial Pros:
    * It appears possible to have representations of one thing be a copy
      of another directory or repository on the same mercurial server that
      maintains history and everything. This could be useful.

-> From the description, .git/objects/info/alternates could be advertised
   as a similar feature for git.

    * Mercurial developers are willing to add missing functionality if
      that makes sense.

-> A 'grep -i fedora' on my archives of the git mailing list suggests
   that this kind of question has not been raised here. As usual, the
   mailing-list is very valuable.

-> The disk requirements of git deserves more explanations than a terse
   "Higher disk space requirements" in the Cons section. Is it a matter
   of running 'git repack' from time to time or something else, _lots_
   of branches/refs ?

-> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/git-eval.txt is
   outdated. It speaks of git version 1.2.4 which dates back to 03/2006
   while the 1.4.x branch is used since 06/2006.

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Ueimor