From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git wiki Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 17:24:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30605030824v40017178o366a9d8aa83557e8@mail.gmail.com> 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> <20060503142957.GA9056@spearce.org> <4458C5D7.8010501@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: "Shawn Pearce" , "Nicolas Pitre" , "Petr Baudis" , "Junio C Hamano" , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 03 17:25:04 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 1FbJDm-0005O9-Bm for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 17:24:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965210AbWECPY2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 11:24:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965220AbWECPY2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 11:24:28 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.180]:38073 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965210AbWECPY1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 11:24:27 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x31so246696pye for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 08:24:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KT8jklH1SmwsAeoNvFddyGeUx4Yv/E9/6NZVXxxONogILQaK/ssgx3qWiIwLE7a0dMZFdZ+JhGjYGx7w2dZ+CrjneJwKU7y8T2zdqqAb+3ykqhc4naiaz+Qbct6VdCwyUh+WWxJ+JIVZVcsVmzoUolhhju0k4SVOnmHOTVajRew= Received: by 10.35.70.17 with SMTP id x17mr1376016pyk; Wed, 03 May 2006 08:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.26.15 with HTTP; Wed, 3 May 2006 08:24:26 -0700 (PDT) To: "Andreas Ericsson" In-Reply-To: <4458C5D7.8010501@op5.se> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 5/3/06, Andreas Ericsson 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. > > > Would be fantastic to see a fair comparison of the two tools but I can't find anything useful on the web. -- Paolo http://paolociarrocchi.googlepages.com