Re: [RFC] Choosing a distributed version control system for PHP (or not). Call for Participation.

On 09/08/11 01:07, Lester Caine wrote: > David Muir wrote: >> John Szakmeister, who is a Subversion developer himself, has a good >> comparison of svn, hg, bzr and git: >> >> http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2011/feb/17/choosing-new-version-control-system/ >> >> >> Long story short, his company went with git. > > Makes good reading ... many other comparisons are now getting long in > the tooth, and so don't cover the current playing field. Still it > looks like 'best of a bad job' rather than 'this wins hands down' and > does make a fair comparison of all the current problems, but I think > the fact that he has not investigated submodules may actually negate > their final results :( This was the main area that I needed to work > well, but is still work in progress everywhere? > He did mention submodules as a Pro for git, but you're right, he didn't compare it with Hg's subrepos and subhg and Bzr's nested trees, bzr-externals and scmproj. I have a feeling that git's native support for it is much more mature than the others. That said, it's not a feature I've looked into myself as it's not something I've actually needed. Cheers, David