From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 10:29:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20060503142957.GA9056@spearce.org> References: <20060502232553.GL27689@pasky.or.cz> <7virooj92i.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <4d8e3fd30605030139k33c5a404k54861fdd02c87134@mail.gmail.com> <20060503090007.GM27689@pasky.or.cz> <4d8e3fd30605030213r625ce87fw5cbee554f1c20fbd@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Paolo Ciarrocchi , Petr Baudis , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 03 16:30:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbIMs-0002mX-Mb for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:30:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965199AbWECOaP (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 10:30:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965202AbWECOaP (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 10:30:15 -0400 Received: from corvette.plexpod.net ([64.38.20.226]:43486 "EHLO corvette.plexpod.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965199AbWECOaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 10:30:13 -0400 Received: from cpe-72-226-60-173.nycap.res.rr.com ([72.226.60.173] helo=asimov.home.spearce.org) by corvette.plexpod.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FbIMV-0005al-8d; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:29:55 -0400 Received: by asimov.home.spearce.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25E1F2303C8; Wed, 3 May 2006 10:29:58 -0400 (EDT) To: Nicolas Pitre Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - corvette.plexpod.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - spearce.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > > On 5/3/06, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > Dear diary, on Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:39:07AM CEST, I got a letter > > > where Paolo Ciarrocchi said that... > > > > On 5/3/06, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > > > > > BTW, do you know why GIT has not been selected as SCM for OpenSolaris? > > > > (they choose Mercurial). > > > > > > I think it's explained somewhere in their forums (or mailing lists or > > > whatever they actually _are_). > > > > I only found the announcement, not the rationales. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-April/000366.html > > Looks like they didn't buy the argument about the uselessness of > recording file renames. The final evaluations are available from here (at the very bottom of the page): http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/scm/ It looks like Mercurial doesn't support renames either, but a lot of users are asking for it to be supported. So I don't think that's the reason. It looks more like they didn't enjoy porting GIT 1.2.2 (as 1.2.4 was found to not work in all cases) to Solaris and the tester ran into some problems with the conflict resolution support. My own reading of the two final evaluations for GIT and Mercurial leaves me feeling like GIT is a more mature tool which is faster and more stable then Mercurial. GIT seemed to be more reliable during testing then Mercurial was, despite the cloning issue. Which makes me surprised that OpenSolaris selected Mercurial instead. -- Shawn.