[oe] Git versus Hg

[pHilipp Zabel]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
> Given the only serious contenders for possible SCM's for OE appear to be
>  git or Hg, I am curious about the expertise level available on this list.
>
>  Basically, let us know if you use git or Hg on a regular basis in a two
>  way workflow and consider yourself knowledgeable on sorting out problems
>  that crop up.

I have Hg installed since the last round of SCM discussion but never
used it seriously.
My git experience is mainly restricted to porcelain (add commit rebase
cherry-pick, etc.).
I'm using it for kernel work and for a handful of local repositiories
with linear history.

As I'm working under what one could today call serious resource
constraints (laptop w/ one 60GB hdd), git clone --reference and inline
branches are important features to me. And besides catching up with
mainline linux, git-rebase -i gives me the ability to check in every
stupid thought and easily clean up once I'm satisfied, whereas with
monotone I currently have to experiment outside of version control.

What is still unclear to me is how well a shared git repository with
push access for multiple parties is going to work. The mobile-linux
repository on serenity had some kind of permission trouble before we
added the group permission fixup in the post-update hook.

regards
Philipp