[Bf-committers] Let us switch to git, pretty please

[Sergey I. Sharybin]

  Hi,

I'm not sure switching the whole repo to git is a nice idea. Last time 
i've checked this it was very painful to work with libs/ repo cloned 
with git -- simple `git status` used to work ages. Maybe this is because 
of plenty of binary files, not sure. And size of that local cloned repo 
was also incredible big -- several gigabutes, iirc.

Git for codebase works really nice when you've got plenty of branches -- 
no pain with all this re-branching and so. Simple `git rebase` and here 
we go. There's also advantage for releases -- tagging happens much nicer 
with git.

It'll be also more useful for pre-realse periods while codebase is 
frozen -- developers could still commit features to the development 
branch, but they wouldn't go to master.

About clients i could say that git on linux works nice, msysgit works 
fine for windows. There's also TortoiseGIT. I haven't used it much, but 
it worked also nice. But i have to admit, that some firends of mine had 
some occasional troubles with it.

P.S. as one more disadvantage, we'll be unable to have that r<number> in 
splash screen. It could be short commit SHA, but not sure it'll be useful.

Tom M wrote:
> It was discussed a bit yesterday on irc as Jason was updating his
> sculpt branch to head that it would haven been much less pain with GIT
> potentially.
>
> Brecht and Ideasman and other core maintainers what are your views on
> moving to git or mercury?
>
> Ultimately the decision will be up to Ton of course, but would be good
> to get a straw poll on sentiment for it.
>
> LetterRip
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With best regards, Sergey I. Sharybin