BDFL decision of Python's DVCS

[David Cournapeau]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>
> Now, personally?  I checked out hg, git, and bzr some time ago.  I was
> looking for a VCS to use and moving away from Subversion.  I wanted
> something relatively quick, simple, and that stayed out of my way.
> That last reason was probably my biggest reason for choosing bzr; it
> stays out of my way until I want it.  I don't have to do anything
> special with it, and it leverages the filesystem for branches.  I hate
> git's "branches all exist in a single repository on disk" model, and
> find it confusing.  In SVN if I wanted to work with branches, I had
> them in different directories, and so that just seems natural to me.
>   

I think that's where the bzr "marketing speech" should focus. As
mentioned by Matthieu, the bzr pages stating "bzr will be among the
fastest", when it is not as of today, that's really hurting, at least in
open source. I think this whole speed business is a bit overrated. I
would say it is actually hurting git as well, because IMHO, git's
strength are much beyond the fast aspect. As a former bzr user and now
mainly git user, what matters to me the most is the multi branches in
one repository model. I find it much better - since different people
have different opinion on this, that may be the kind of things bzr
should stress its difference on,

cheers,

David