From felix at nfrac.org  Wed May 26 02:29:19 2010
From: felix at nfrac.org (Felix Andrews)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:29:19 +1000
Subject: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS
Message-ID: <AANLkTikqeJ_LEosa4ett4bLPO9SD375Lz_lA88Z5sEAX@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Just wondering whether anyone had thought about moving the R sources
to a "distributed" version control system such as Bazaar, Git or
Mercurial. These new generation systems make it easier to work on
feature branches, allow working offline, are very fast, etc.

Some projects that have moved to Git are
Linux Kernel
Perl
Ruby on Rails
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

Some projects that have moved to Bazaar (bzr) are
Ubuntu
MySQL
Inkscape
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(software)

Some projects that have moved to Mercurial (hg) are
Mozilla
Octave
Python
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial_(software)

Joel Spolky's take on it:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html

Regards
-Felix

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[Rd] SVN vs DVCS
Felix Andrews