On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:57, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org> wrote:
And even that leaves aside the question of just which of those systems to adopt, which is a question, every other time I have seen it (other contexts), that never seems to get settled quickly - they all seem to have different advantages and disadvantages, which is "best" depends a lot on what each individual user sees as most important.
That was true a couple of years ago, but now I think you'll find most objective observers agree that git has won and is the rational choice (note thats rational, not best).
I would disagree (if just to make the point that no single system has won): I think you'll find most objective observers agree that hg is much more user-friendly and draws a *lot* of developers (though maybe from a different tribe than yours; for example, Mercurial is quite popular with Windows developers, where git functions suboptimally). So while I agree that setting up a public (D)VCS repo ASAPish would be good, I also agree with Robert that it's sensible to wait a little bit for a discussion to take place, after the current issue subsides a bit. Cheers, Dirkjan