On May 21, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
Again, I will comment that my preference for git is largely based on the lack of support for bzr on Mac OSX. If we had the same GUI support that is provided by, for example GitX, and we had integration with the Xcode IDE, then I am sure that I would not care which DVCS was used as the backend.
I'm pretty much a command line guy, so can't help much with the gui integration. But I do get that it would be useful. I could ask around if you want though.
Perhaps we can have the best of both worlds by setting up a "bot" to export/import the bzr tree to a git tree on a routine basis. I presently maintain both the underlying .git and .bzr directories in my development trees.
I don't know if github can import foreign vcs branches, but that might be one thing to investigate. As long as we don't get pull requests from git branches, I'd certainly support that. (Launchpad can import foreign vcses into bzr branches, though Mercurial will soon be deprecated due to bit rot in the bzr-hg plugin.)
-Barry