[IronPython] The elephant in the room: source control for IronPython

[Tristan Zajonc]

I've used both hg+bitbucket and git+github.  In my experience, there is very
little difference between hg and git in terms of workflow.  I found both to
be great and the tools are pretty mature across all platforms.  I do think
GitHub is rapidly becoming a killer application for open source projects.
 If you look at the IronRuby repository (http://github.com/ironruby/ironruby),
there are already 340 watchers and 109 forks, which is a non-negligible
consideration imho.

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Noah Gift <noah.gift at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Jeff Hardy <jdhardy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Miguel de Icaza <miguel at novell.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Moving to Git seems like a no brainer to me: we only have to move
>> IronPython
>> > there.   If we were to pick another of the open source source code
>> > management systems we would be moving both Ruby and Python away.
>>
>> Where I'm torn is that IronPython is between a rock and a hard place -
>> on the one hand, I want to work closely with the Mono project (which
>> would strongly imply using github), but I also want to be in sync with
>> the Python community (which has largely embraced hg).
>>
>> Python's separated stdlib will be a Mercurial repo, and if IronPython
>> were in Hg we could easily pull in the stdlib as a subrepo. However, I
>> presume the DLR will stay on github, and we'll need to pull that in as
>> well, which of course would be easier from git.
>>
>> Damned if we do, damned if we don't. I'm leaning towards Mercurial
>> because I prefer it, and it seems like many other people do as well. I
>> know hg can pull from git, but I don't know about the reverse.
>>
>> > If the concern is the UI for checking code out for Git, there is a
>> > transparent bridge that exposes the tree to Subversion which has good
>> > Windows clients.
>>
>> Tortoise-Git is actually very nice now. I don't think git's Windows
>> support is really an issue anymore.
>>
>> Haven't tried it, but this looks interesting:
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> http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2010/10/10/dual-bitbucketgithub-citizenship/
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> - Jeff
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> Noah
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