From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [62.70.27.150] (helo=hoat.troll.no) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JZT0u-0001X1-2h for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:37:50 +0100 Received: from hoat.troll.no (tedur.troll.no [62.70.27.154]) by hoat.troll.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 8663A4000D for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:35:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from sx01.troll.no (sx01.troll.no [62.70.27.21]) by hoat.troll.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA6B40002 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:35:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from sx01.troll.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sx01.troll.no (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2CFZ1t4021402; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:35:01 +0100 Received: from tomdev.troll.no (tomdev.troll.no [10.3.5.39]) by sx01.troll.no (Scalix SMTP Relay 11.3.0.11339) via ESMTP; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:35:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:35:02 +0100 From: Tom Cooksey To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Message-ID: <200803121635.02741.thomas.cooksey@trolltech.com> In-Reply-To: <20080312172200.47c01671@widy.localdomain> References: <47D71B8F.1030108@balister.org> References: <200803121551.50037.thomas.cooksey@trolltech.com> References: <20080312172200.47c01671@widy.localdomain> x-scalix-Hops: 1 Organization: Trolltech User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 62.70.27.150 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tcooksey@trolltech.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on serenity X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.3 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:39:36 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Cc: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org Subject: Re: Git versus Hg X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:38:16 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: inline > > If you choose a well-known SCM system, it's one less > > thing new potential developers need to learn. They have enough to > > learn as it is. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Tom > > > > PS: Personally, I'd never heard of Hg until reading threads on this > > list. > > And you won't believe, but many people never heard about Perforce, even > though it has been alternative (commercial, plus OpenSource loyalty > program) to CVS for something like decade (cannot be exact, but 7 > years ago it was there for sure). Many large entities still selected > CVS and spent money on "reduced development productivity and extra > maintenance costs" (forgive my corporate-speak), just because it was so > familiar. Yep, I was one of them. Never heard of perforce before starting at Trolltech. :-) I think I have limited SCM knowledge. CVS, SVN, Git, Starteam (eeek) were the only ones I really knew about, until fairly recently.