From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1UqVjB-00077N-M3 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:52:13 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UqVj9-00076N-5L for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:52:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UqVj7-0005Rv-Ks for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:52:11 -0400 Received: from mail-gh0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::22e]:32807) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UqVj7-0005Rn-GS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:52:09 -0400 Received: by mail-gh0-f174.google.com with SMTP id r17so2768911ghr.33 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:52:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=k6pXzf4QNVEk9IMNlvjEL5qFig+GD8FJUtB3ScSMv3w=; b=xk+NcgAwpfGCPBREUJbPFcBmDlAZlMQtZuRekQik07V2CJyOaVIIVQp4dEH3Jwt+LO IHWSgR7iWXS33wCu/YKizyhzUBhiY2mpk8JJ8an68EfYZdfsy0UBZ79l/iOsFkyw3Zo2 iWMBuWkZHm5ce4rqRgngoAues4u2D5/++z7ZOqMcISGV1dTtxwxYgdZ1apMthGZhTODX 46xSVrRwbSgKzcC+OsvEy5W15M8erGj1lHTbajyxnUKQsRjzEXrCwOr+a1nFDGJoFZ1W 44P0j+cLVzlZsp4Jdtnul1CXxzWe16hXJzVIx+ErrL8wI+J9QHMq9kFrYPbJQQcXo9T5 ijWQ== X-Received: by 10.236.13.36 with SMTP id a24mr10151772yha.200.1371937928179; Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.75] (cpe-72-178-123-130.satx.res.rr.com. [72.178.123.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id o32sm18842331yhi.5.2013.06.22.14.52.05 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 22 Jun 2013 14:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51C61C84.8000901@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:52:04 -0500 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120628 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: [RFC] Moving from Bazaar (bzr) to git References: <1371924016.6521.24.camel@mattotaupa> In-Reply-To: <1371924016.6521.24.camel@mattotaupa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4002:c05::22e X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:52:12 -0000 Paul Menzel wrote: > Dear GRUB folks, > > > this is *not* the start of a flame war about what VCS is the best. > > Hopefully everyone will agree, that git is the most popular one in the > FOSS world (Linux, freedesktop.org, GNOME, KDE, …) and a lot of people > are now familiar with the basic git commands. So using Bazaar is one > more thing to deal with for new contributors before making a > contribution to GRUB. (I know there is git-bzr-ng, but it is still one > more step.) > > Talking to Vladimir and Colin in #grub, they did not oppose a migration > to git and Vladimir asked me to bring it up on the list. Personally, I prefer subversion, but I'm not a GRUB developer. The choice of version control can be similar emacs/vi or Bourne Shell/C Shell, so it really should be the choice of the primary developers. Using Google for 'git vs subversion' provides a lot of interesting opinions. -- Bruce