Re: Repository conversion

[Tait <gnu...@t4...>]

"Eric S. Raymond" <es...@th...> said (on 2014/02/24):
> (2) Where do you want to land?
> 
> As bzr is now moribund, the realistic alternatives are Subversion,
> git, and hg.  But I mention Subversion only for completeness; the
> advantages of distributed VCS are huge and if you're going to incur
> the transition costs of moving away from CVS either git or hg would
> have a much higher functional payoff.

I'd not heard Bazaar was moribund... they seem to be still making new
releases? (... However, SourceForge doesn't appear to support bzr, so
it's probably moot to this discussion.)

Has anyone studied/published how many projects have switched from Hg
to git, and vice-versa? From my personal anecdotal experience, I know
of a couple that have hg->git (mostly due to difficulties with
branching), but none that have git->hg.

Support for all three (#bzr, #mercurial, #git) can be had on
irc.freenode.net. #Git is by far the largest channel of those (for
whatever that's worth) and seems to have the largest list of projects
using it, so momentum seems to favor git there. Hg doesn't have the
concept of an index (or stage, depending on the age of the
documentation), so it will be more similar to CVS/SVN in work flow.