[Rosegarden-devel] version control repositories

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

OK, in order to have something concrete to consider, I've converted a
bit of history to git and Mercurial.

Rosegarden's history is pretty gnarly and includes a lot of dead-end
branches and relatively few sensible tags, so rather than get into
knots trying to convert everything I converted only the trunk, and
only back to the point where the Qt4 build was pulled across to trunk.
That's still 2000-odd revisions. I've mapped the usernames as well as
I could (let me know if you see any mistakes there).  I used hg
convert to convert to Mercurial, and ended up using hg-fast-export to
get the data from hg to git.

Here it is in git:
https://github.com/cannam/rosegarden

And here in Mercurial:
https://bitbucket.org/cannam/rosegarden

Presumably there would want to be an official rosegarden-release repo
to do builds from -- I'm just proposing one of these as a possible
starting point to clone from.

So, what do you think? Developers please please pick one of the following --

 [ ] I like the git one
 [ ] I like the hg one
 [ ] either is fine with me (e.g. I'm happy with both tools, or I'd
clone to the other one anyway)
 [ ] I'd like to use a dvcs, but I'd suggest a different repo to start
from (e.g. one I already have locally)
 [ ] I don't think we should switch from svn

and of course

 [ ] Gah! Cannam is an arse


Chris