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[Doug Barth <dougbarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 10, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Stephen Mullins wrote:

> I haven't been impressed with Launchpad/bazaar and I'd like to open  
> the discussion to moving ERMA to another hosting site.  The main  
> reason I do not like using launchpad/bazaar is the lack of toolage  
> of community following.  I find it tedious currently to manage my  
> different branches along with reviewing/merging your branches back  
> to trunk.

Am I correct in my assumption that you're being overwhelmed by the  
directory per branch method that Bazaar uses? If so, Git may be a  
better fit because it supports managing multiple branches within a  
single directory.

> The advantage to either one of these choices is the greater amount  
> of tools already built out on each technology.  Granted subversion  
> has been around a lot longer than git but git has quite the  
> following and has relatively quickly gained a lot of tool support.   
> I know Doug is a git guru and would probably lean that way.  My only  
> reservation is: do we really need distributed source control?  Or  
> would simple subversion fit our needs?


I would suggest Git over Subversion. In fact, our company is working  
on moving our source from Subversion to Git and we're only 3  
developers. The biggest reason is that fast and easy branching helps  
us switch gears more quickly.

I find the workflow for Git quite similar to Accurev's stream  
approach, and for that reason I would think it would be a good fit for  
you guys. The typical git workflow is to develop changes on branches,  
committing early and often. Before sharing, one would typically  
"rebase" your changes off the master branch to maintain a more linear  
history.

IMO, the benefits of distributed source control for open source  
projects are the reduced politics of who gets commit rights and the  
ease of creating patches for non-core members.

+1 for git. Check out this video by Randal Schwartz to get a better  
understanding of how Git works if you haven't seen it: YouTube - Git

gitcasts.com may also be worth a look for learning Git.
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Doug Barth