Proposals/feedback for a distributed version control system for cutecash?

[Colin Law]

On 27 March 2010 14:17, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> On Mar 27, 2010, at 3:57 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:
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>> What is the experience around here with distributed version control systems
>> (VCS) for a project of our size? In the long run I'd like to continue the work
>> on the cutecash experiment outside of the gnucash SVN repository, and
>> preferrably in a distributed VCS. I'd like to collect some feedback about the
>> pros and cons of the distributed VCS systems around here...
>>
>> Ideally, I'd like to find a hosting location with distributed VCS hosting
>> which automatically imports and tracks the gnucash/trunk SVN branch, though.
>> However, the only hosting place that supports this seems to be launchpad.net -
>> and their VCS is bazaar. (Hosting sites for git such as github.com at most
>> import a one-shot import from SVN, but no automatic continuous tracking.)
>>
>> Even though I have got accustomed to git, I would have no problem with
>> switching to bazaar BUT when quickly giving this a try, I wasn't too happy
>> with some of its features.
>>
>> Notably, I've grown accustomed to the "gitk" graphical overview of the recent
>> branch history. Browsing through all 18000 commits is done by key presses and
>> the GUI reacts instantly, showing the summary and full diff of any commit in a
>> reaction time that seems non-measurable. Even on a computer with a slow hard
>> disk. In contrast to this, "bzr qgit" seems to take longer by a factor of 10
>> when loading the window and also when browsing through the commits - which is
>> considerably less fun than with "gitk". Did other people experience this
>> differently?
>>
>> Also, in git there is "git gui" which has the extremely cool feature of
>> staging (committing) only selected hunks of the current working copy diff.
>> When viewing the diff of the current working copy against the latest HEAD, I
>> can right-click on the single hunks that I'd like to commit, and leave the
>> rest of the file excluded from the new commit. Does bazaar have a GUI with a
>> similiar feature?
>>
>> What would other devs around here choose as distributed VCS for a new project,
>> and why? Do you know of any hosting sites with that VCS that offers continuous
>> tracking of the original SVN branch?
>
> Christian,
>
> I'll note that both Linux and GNOME use git. They are both far larger projects than Gnucash, so scalability is very obviously not a concern. The only complaint I've heard about git is that it isn't well supported on MSWin; the author of that complaint (Vadim Zeitlin of wxWidgets, another very large project) preferred Hg -- until he spent some time with git and realized that its power and flexibility left Hg in the dust.

For windows developers TortoiseGit was developing well and fully
usable before I left windows a little time ago.

Colin