Comparision of Git & Bzr [was Re: Short HOWTO on using git for Samba development]

[James Peach]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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> James Peach wrote:
>> On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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>>> I would be very concerned about scaling a bzr repo with our
>>> existing number of svn commits.  Granted that we coud drop
>>> the svn history
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>> Do you mean dropping the history in the central
>> repository or dropping the history of the remote
>> developer's clone?
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> I mean we could start a fresh new repo in git or bzr
> just like we did when converting to svn from cvs.

IMO that was a big mistake. We switched over too soon before tools to  
migrate history were available.

We absolutely must have the author history, if only to maintain  
correct copyright attributions when moving code around.

> I don't really like this idea unless there is no other way
> though.

If that's the only way, I'd rather stick with svn, even though I quite  
like git :)

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