[Docutils-users] Git or Mercurial?

[Marc Abramowitz]

Has anyone suggested moving from Subversion to Git or Mercurial?

Most Python projects use one of those two and usually either GitHub or
Bitbucket, because it makes collaboration a lot easier.

Has it come up before?

Marc

[David Goodger]

Post by Marc Abramowitz
Has anyone suggested moving from Subversion to Git or Mercurial?
Most Python projects use one of those two and usually either GitHub or
Bitbucket, because it makes collaboration a lot easier.
Has it come up before?

Many times; see the mailing list archives for this list and
Docutils-develop. I'm not averse to switching, it just has to be done
properly and completely with minimal perturbation. Mercurial is my
preference, because it's written and extensible in Python, and because
I find Git slightly harder to use (although much better than it used
to be).

Docutils pre-dates widespread DVCS use. Once you're set up and used to
SVN, the cost of switching outweighs the benefits, at least in the
short term. And I don't drink the "switch to Github and prepare for a
deluge of pull requests" koolaid.
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David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

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[Guenter Milde]

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Has anyone suggested moving from Subversion to Git or Mercurial?

Many have, see the list archive.

Most Python projects use one of those two and usually either GitHub or
Bitbucket, because it makes collaboration a lot easier.

Collaboration is not the problem. It is a matter of familiarisation - the
current Docutils developers are more familiar with SVN.
OTOH, I support a move to Git because setting up brances is a pain with SVN.

However, I don't think there is need to change the host, as Sourceforge
supports the "modern" vcs. (If we do not want to exclude possible
developers from Cuba, we should move to a non-US host, though.)

Günter