[PLUG-Devel] OT: sourceforge or codeplex or googlecode for OSS hosting

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Monday 15 September 2008 09:09:43 pm Josh Coffman wrote:
> Ted,
>
>   Why don't you start a thread and share you're dsvc experiences?
> I've not used any, but thought I might try mercurial out for fun.
> (yep... source control for fun..  I'm mental.)  Anyway, I'd be
> interested.  I do a lot of stuff that is just me or for a client that
> has their own setup.  So I'm not sure I see the point of dsvc in my
> case, but I'd like to know more.
>
> -j
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx> wrote:
> > I'll say that once you go DVCS (Distributed VCS) you'll never go back.
> > There is so much crazy stuff I do now that I wouldn't even think about
> > doing with something like SVN or *shutter* CVS.
> >
> >> For the curious about version control, especially distributed version
> >> control, I found
> >> http://versioncontrolblog.com/comparison/Arch/Bazaar/Darcs/Mercurial/Mon
> >>otone/index.html to be interesting.
> >
> > That is interesting, but I'd really say that there are only about two
> > DVCSes left.  The others are being developed, but their communities are
> > shrinking.  The two are Bazaar and Git.
> >
> > Personally I find Bazaar easier to use with more tools, but Git has more
> > big projects using it (Linux Kernel, X, fd.o, etc.)  Personally, I think
> > that's more for legacy reasons than technical ones, YMMV.
> >
> > Full disclosure: I work for Canonical, and we sponsor the development of
> > Bazaar.  But, I use it for my hobby projects also.
> >
> >                --Ted

Here is a talk Linus gave at Google about Git.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8