James’ SOC Blog

Its quite clear from the various discussions related to DVCS that there isn’t going to be one clear winner for the choice of VCS for Gnome; everyone wants to use their favourite DVCS. So here’s an idea, why not allow them to?

I think that the deciding factor for which DVCS to use is the quality of the tools that enable interoperability between all the other possible tools. Obviously there is tailor which automates migration of patchsets between different DVCS’s, but I want more native support within the tool I’m using; i.e if I’m using git I want to use “git’s terminology” to “pull and push” from the remote repository. I’ve found  git-bzr for interoperating between git and bzr, and similarily there is bzr-git for the other way around, although I’ve not yet had time to see how either of the tools work.

Basically I think that the decision of which DVCS to choose should be based upon which DVCS is the easiest to import into all the others(or at least just the most popular ones!). This makes all the other points regarding speed etc really quite moot so long as these tools work well (In particular I’d like to observe how well they maintain merge histories between the DVCS systems - maybe when I get time in the next few weeks I’ll do some experimenting).