From: Czarek <cezary.baginski@...>
Date: 2011-01-06T08:02:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34138] Re: Moving to Git?


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On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 06:50:24AM +0900, mathew wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 13:23, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
> <rr.rosas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Regarding bazar, I don't know it, as much as most git users.
>=20
> I've observed that most git advocates don't know any other DVCS.
> That's probably why they advocate for git citing things that every
> single DVCS does.

Unless they don't *specifically* mean 'git' ...

In the context of replacing svn, a 'git' advocate probably is just a
DVCS advocate, just like we 'google' for things instead of 'searching'
for them, even considering Yahoo!, Bing, etc.

With all due respect, non-git DVCS fans sometimes are too quick to
suggest that their favorite VCS has been left out for reasons other
than just plain convenience. I understand this.

But, if I had to mention every DVCS out there every time I wanted to
explain the differences between svn and "something else" ...

> > I'm not against it, but I don't think that having a similar
> > command set is a good enough reason for using that instead of the
> > much popular git...
>=20
> Well, obviously *you* wouldn't, because you've already taken the
> time to learn git and learn to deal with its pitfalls and
> idiosyncrasies.  The point is that bzr wouldn't be a major learning
> effort for all the people currently using svn who don't know git.

Easy Git is worth looking into in that case.

I wouldn't want regular Ruby contributors to waste time learning other
DVCS's when they can work on my favorite programming language... ;)

> As far as popularity goes, http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/WhoUsesBzr

I found only one occurrence of the word 'Ruby' on that page. Github on
the other hand speaks for itself.

If you believe bzr is worth considering, maybe try maintaining a bazar
mirror of Ruby for a while (like shyouhei's ruby on github). Bazar to
me suggests Launchpad - and that suggests Ubuntu. Maybe you could
leverage that to help with debian Ruby package maintenance?

Or, at the very least, help more bzr/Launchpad users to contribute?

Just a thought.

Cheers.

--=20
Cezary Baginski

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