docutils-users

[Docutils-users] Git or Mercurial?

[Marc A. <msa...@gm...>]

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?

Marc

Re: [Docutils-users] Git or Mercurial?

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Marc Abramowitz <msa...@gm...> 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>

Re: [Docutils-users] Git or Mercurial?

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2014-12-17, Marc Abramowitz wrote:

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> Has anyone suggested moving from Subversion to Git or Mercurial?

Many have, see the list archive.

> Most Python projects use one of those two and usually either GitHub or
> Bitbucket, because it makes collaboration a lot easier.

Collaboration is not the problem. It is a matter of familiarisation - the
current Docutils developers are more familiar with SVN. 
OTOH, I support a move to Git because setting up brances is a pain with SVN.

However, I don't think there is need to change the host, as Sourceforge
supports the "modern" vcs. (If we do not want to exclude possible
developers from Cuba, we should move to a non-US host, though.)

Günter