Re: [RFC] Moving from Bazaar (bzr) to git

[Bruce Dubbs]

Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear GRUB folks,
>
>
> this is *not* the start of a flame war about what VCS is the best.
>
> Hopefully everyone will agree, that git is the most popular one in the
> FOSS world (Linux, freedesktop.org, GNOME, KDE, …) and a lot of people
> are now familiar with the basic git commands. So using Bazaar is one
> more thing to deal with for new contributors before making a
> contribution to GRUB. (I know there is git-bzr-ng, but it is still one
> more step.)
>
> Talking to Vladimir and Colin in #grub, they did not oppose a migration
> to git and Vladimir asked me to bring it up on the list.

Personally, I prefer subversion, but I'm not a GRUB developer.  The 
choice of version control can be similar emacs/vi or Bourne Shell/C 
Shell, so it really should be the choice of the primary developers.

Using Google for 'git vs subversion' provides a lot of interesting 
opinions.

  -- Bruce