Switch from SVN to xxx ?

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 16:13 +0200, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> 
> > Nicolas Pinault <nicolasp at aaton.com> writes:
> >
> >> - If I switch to one of them, which one ?
> >
> > Bazaar gets several things right IMO. Rather than repeat them here,
> > try
> > <URL:http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/why-switch-to-bazaar.html>
> > if you haven't already.
> >
> > In my experience the main advantages of Bazaar over the competition
> > are:
> >
> > * Direct tracking of rename, instead of figuring it out each time from
> >   secondary data and occasionally getting it wrong.
> >   <URL:http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/123>
> 
> Please note that Mercurial tracks renames just like Bazaar and
> Subversion -- you tell Mercurial about it and make your commit.
> 
> You should also note that the article has a fair amount of FUD. Mark
> deliberatedly talks about "guessing" because he wants to make Git look
> bad, though it seems to work fine for them. He also make a great deal
> about how Mercurial used to say

In my experience the guessing bit is indeed a problem. It works well
99.9% but when we renamed a top-level directory in the Samba git
repository from "source" to "source3" git log gave up on rename
inference (presumably because dealing with 3000 paths that had changed
was too expensive performance-wise). The only acceptable solution we
could find was to rewrite all of our history with the new name and "git
log" was happy again.

Cheers,

Jelmer
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