[ros-dev] GIT mirror

[Aleksey Bragin]

> I've used git and if all you're doing is committing and checking  
> out it's simple enough. But the fact its architecture is so sloppy  
> (imo) is what bothers me -- it nearly encourages you to mess with  
> things like history and the source directory, which is very much  
> against svn/hg's immutability.
Typical linux-way, they even acknowledge it :(. Also, if it was clear  
from the beginning that a collection of scripts starting with git- 
blah won't work, why do them? And now conversion to "git  
dosomething", though "git-daemon" still exists, and "gitweb" is  
without any dash at all (which is not a command), and config files  
are spread on the gentoo box in /etc/conf.d and just in /etc.
My portion of a rant.

>  Worth noting that mercurial's performance is horrendous compared to
> Git. I've been using Git for all my projects lately (ranging from
> games to libraries, to scripts and other utilities). It works great.
>
> I've yet to see actual numbers on that, especially on Windows systems.
Native Git's performance in Windows doesn't really set records. I  
just compared a log operation, it seems to take equal amount of time  
doing a local git status and doing a remote svn status on my 256kbit/ 
s radiochannel.

I started that mirror because I couldn't get Hg to import our  
repository. Most of the importing scripts I tried (why not do one  
official? Migration from other VCS is a HUGELY important thing: look,  
even GIT, with all fanatism involved, made a really working  
interoperability tools!) didn't work, caused exceptions, and a couple  
of other scripts we tried estimated the needed time to import our  
repo as about several months.

> The main problem with Hg is the same problem I have with GCC,  
> Cygwin, etc -- it's a Linux tool built for Linux-based projects,  
> with a fanatic Linux-based fanbase that won't care much about  
> Windows support, stability and performance..
So true... I'm sick of those fanatics, though recently I see a  
decrease of their count, and a fresh view on FOSS world by people  
(here in Russia).