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[seth AT swoolley.homeip.net]

On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:15:16PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:48:59PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > I would go for leaving mercurial (hg) out, at least until the current
> > round of testing is done with Perforce, SVN/SVK, and git. To me git
> > seems to be doing quite well, with the only thing going for SVN/SVK is
> > it's currently more popular with more tools/front-ends for it and
> > Perforce already being setup and our developers familiar with it. :)
>  
> Either we leave it out forever or we add it now.
> When this round of testing is done, we want to be _done_ with the whole
> SCM issue. We'll run the whole-grimoire test with the option of going
> back to p4, of course, but the idea is that we settle this for the
> foreseeable future.
> Personally I'd say we add it. We have a very strong contender with git,
> so adding additional systems is imho a good idea. It gives us another
> perspective on the whole thing. Subversion kinda disqualified itself
> with regards to scalability, so any system that can scale to our setup
> shouldn't be left out.
> Overall, I don't have a problem with this testing period taking another
> month or two. We want to have a good basis to judge the systems, and we
> want to switch to something we're reasonably sure of that it'll work for
> us in the future. Let's test until we're confident we know what system
> ot use, that'll take less time overall than doing this whole thing again
> in a year ;)

Arwed speaks my mind on this issue.  I was about to reply and say the
same thing, but I saw his.

Seth