[Adium-devl] bzr instead of hg?

[Felipe Contreras]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 2:32 AM, Peter Hosey <prh at boredzo.org> wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2008, at 16:08:30, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Peter Hosey <prh at boredzo.org> wrote:
>>> Advantages:
>>>
>>> - msn-pecan uses bzr
>>>
>> Nope, msn-pecan uses git.
>
> Rats. I didn't look at your Launchpad URL; I just assumed that you
> were using it for versioning, too. I guess you just use it for bug-
> tracking, then?
>
>> AFAIK bzr support for svn is quite good, just like git's.
>
> It's bad, just like Tailor's. By "bad", I mean that it can't handle
> a commit that touches multiple branches (e.g., trunk and a branch at
> the same time).
>
> However, as I said, it's been a long time since I tried to convert our
> repo to Bazaar, so maybe they fixed this. (I kinda doubt it, but as I
> said, we should probably check.)

Yeah, I would double-check since the bzr guys keep saying svn support
is excellent. But for the record so is git's one :)

>> BTW, my mtn->git script is basically done, so soon I'll publish an
>> exact replica of Pidgin's mtn repo in git.
>
> That would be helpful. Git has some disadvantages, though:
>
> 1. Harder to learn (less svn-like and some bigger paradigm differences)

It's harder to learn properly, but the basics are pretty simple.

> 2. Doesn't provide monotonic revision numbers

What do you mean by monotonic revision numbers?

-- 
Felipe Contreras