[openlp-dev] Exploring GitLab

[Raoul Snyman]

> I fully recognize that I'm new to bzr and openlp, so my opinion 
> probably
> counts for less than two cents, but so far I haven't seen any bzr 
> feature
> that would make me want to switch all my projects away from git. :)

My guess is that you've only ever used git, right? :)

When OpenLP started, we were using CVS and SourceForge. When SourceForge 
rolled out Subversion, I moved OpenLP to Subversion. When distributed 
version control systems started, I looked into the different options. 
git had (and still has) completely different actions for certain 
commands ("cvs revert", "svn revert", "bzr revert" and "hg revert" all 
do the same thing, "git revert" does something different), and a friend 
of mine was advocating for Bazaar (they used it at their company). Also, 
GitHub and GitLab (and Gitorius) didn't exist but Launchpad did.

So this friend of mine helped me migrate OpenLP to Bazaar and Launchpad. 
It was difficult (just like the cvs -> svn migration), but once we were 
onto Bazaar the commands worked the same as Subversion, and most of the 
concepts were the same. Bazaar was essentially a distributed take on 
Subversion (and let's be honest, Subversion merging was not as bad as 
people make it out to be), and was easy to adapt to.

A couple of years later, the company I was working for decided to move 
from Subversion to git, and we all got badly burnt by git because it is 
so different to other version control systems. I helped migrate all our 
repositories, and the migration was even worse than svn to bzr. I also 
had to run around to all the QA folk and all the designers every day 
helping them fix the problems they created for themselves by using git. 
At the time, GitHub still didn't exist.

It was horrendous, and I was git'ed out after that.

So, from my point of view, "so far I haven't seen any git feature that 
would make me want to switch all my projects away from bzr" -- and I use 
git on a daily basis with my job.

I leave you with some enlightenment ;-) 
http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/

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Raoul Snyman
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