Re: [Fontforge-devel] [PATCH] Patches from debian

[Matijs v. Z. <ma...@ma...>]

On 05/03/2010 08:13 PM, Barry Schwartz wrote:
> Matijs van Zuijlen<ma...@ma...>  skribis:
>> According to<http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/>, local branching is cheaper in
>> git (for some meaning of cheaper) than in Mercurial. This seems to be
>> corroborated by the information in
>> <http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LocalbranchExtension>. Cheap local branching
>> to me would be a very strong argument for choosing Git. (Disclaimer: I'm much
>> more familiar with Git's command set, but I'm trying not to let that influence
>> my opinion too much here.)
>
> I wouldn't consider that an important feature -- to me redundancy is
> desirable, and fontforge is not a very large project -- but a git
> server still makes sense, because it can be used with the mercurial
> client: http://hg-git.github.com/

The only redundancy git avoids is redundancy on my hard disk. I don't think it 
matters if I store one or two full copies of fontforge's history :-).

That said, the use of hg-git would give us the best of both worlds, as it were.

Regards,
-- 
Matijs