Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
However, I don't know of any consensus towards hg. I know that
Jesse
wasn't impressed when he did the dist-git prototype, but I think he
judged it too quickly. As I see it, git has a lot more buy-in from the
upstream open source projects that we package and ship in fedora, and a
lot of packagers are also upstream developers and know git already.
Name *any* open source project that we ship that is developed in hg?
One of the big arguments against distributed version control systems is
that "there are so many, clearly it must still be an academic
experiment". Now that git is finally gaining momentum, do we really
want to diffuse that by picking hg for such a high profile conversion?
And with the 1.5.0 release coming out any day now, a lot of the user
interface warts have been fixed.
We dont be diffusing things really. There is one single strong player in
the distributed SCM field. Xen, RPM, Pungi, OLPC and many others are
already using Mercurial. Also see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl
Rahul