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It's great to hear that Django is moving to GitHub. It seems like the Python community has been slow to adopt git, perhaps because Bazaar and Mercurial are writ

It's great to hear that Django is moving to GitHub. It seems like the Python community has been slow to adopt git, perhaps because Bazaar and Mercurial are written in Python, and perhaps because GitHub uses Ruby. That said, it seems like git is emerging as the winner, and IMHO GitHub is far superior to anything available outside of git, so I'm glad they're making the move.

sc68cal 15y ago
Indeed, this is good news - there have always been a pull request or two on the Django GitHub mirror that would need to be closed and redirected to the Django project bug tracker, where they would need to generate a patch. This always slowed contributions and made people who genuinely wanted to help jump through needless hoops.
zalew 15y ago
heh, I myself started using HG partly because of language patriotism, partly because Bitbucket (running on Django) had a better offer than Github. yet one had to be out of his mind not to like Django moving to any of those providers. it's a great step. (a little tiny bit sad they didn't choose hg/bitbucket ;)) the move surprised me a bit, AFAIR when this topic (moving to a DVCS) was raised on DjangoCons, Russel explained that's not a priority (correct me if my memory fails).
- eli 15y ago
  I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I would imagine Adrian's list of priorities represents just that -- the things he wants to work on.
  - adrianh 15y ago
    Yes, that, plus the things that I think would be good for the framework and the community.
    - zalew 15y ago
      oh, great :) forgot to link the hn post in comments on your blog, glad you came here so fast. cheerz
briancurtin 15y ago
> It seems like the Python community has been slow to adopt git, perhaps because Bazaar and Mercurial are written in Python, and perhaps because GitHub uses Ruby. For a lot of people in the Python world, choosing a DVCS just means picking what CPython picked (hg). At the time, that decision was at least partly due to the fact that git had poor Windows support, and less about the languages involved (GitHub/Ruby weren't a factor anyway since it would be a self-hosted git install). If the decision was to be made again today, most people I've talked to think git would be the choice.
- glenjamin 15y ago
  My experience is still that git is at best a second class citizen on windows, in terms of installation, performance and usability. Is this no longer the case in some way?
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  - roryokane 15y ago
    I have used Git on only Windows and Mac, and these are my experiences: Installation on Windows is easy – just use msysGit[1]. I don’t know about performance because I never worked with large repositories. For usability, all the command-line options and tools work as normal, and git gui is equally usable/unusable as it is on Mac. Mac does have a wider selection of GUI front-ends for Git, including my favorite, Tower, but Windows does have a few, including SmartGit, which is enough for simple usage. Windows’ command line program is harder to use than Mac’s Terminal, but the free program Console[2] gives it most features I need. [1] http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
  - zheng 15y ago
    I can't really speak to performance (I don't have any large projects where I could tell a difference), but the install is painless, and the windows git shell is really nice.
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sc68cal 15y ago

Indeed, this is good news - there have always been a pull request or two on the Django GitHub mirror that would need to be closed and redirected to the Django project bug tracker, where they would need to generate a patch. This always slowed contributions and made people who genuinely wanted to help jump through needless hoops.

zalew 15y ago

heh, I myself started using HG partly because of language patriotism, partly because Bitbucket (running on Django) had a better offer than Github. yet one had to be out of his mind not to like Django moving to any of those providers. it's a great step. (a little tiny bit sad they didn't choose hg/bitbucket ;)) the move surprised me a bit, AFAIR when this topic (moving to a DVCS) was raised on DjangoCons, Russel explained that's not a priority (correct me if my memory fails).

eli 15y ago
I don't want to put words in his mouth, but I would imagine Adrian's list of priorities represents just that -- the things he wants to work on.
- adrianh 15y ago
  Yes, that, plus the things that I think would be good for the framework and the community.
  - zalew 15y ago
    oh, great :) forgot to link the hn post in comments on your blog, glad you came here so fast. cheerz

briancurtin 15y ago

> It seems like the Python community has been slow to adopt git, perhaps because Bazaar and Mercurial are written in Python, and perhaps because GitHub uses Ruby. For a lot of people in the Python world, choosing a DVCS just means picking what CPython picked (hg). At the time, that decision was at least partly due to the fact that git had poor Windows support, and less about the languages involved (GitHub/Ruby weren't a factor anyway since it would be a self-hosted git install). If the decision was to be made again today, most people I've talked to think git would be the choice.

glenjamin 15y ago
My experience is still that git is at best a second class citizen on windows, in terms of installation, performance and usability. Is this no longer the case in some way?
- deleted 15y ago
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- roryokane 15y ago
  I have used Git on only Windows and Mac, and these are my experiences: Installation on Windows is easy – just use msysGit[1]. I don’t know about performance because I never worked with large repositories. For usability, all the command-line options and tools work as normal, and git gui is equally usable/unusable as it is on Mac. Mac does have a wider selection of GUI front-ends for Git, including my favorite, Tower, but Windows does have a few, including SmartGit, which is enough for simple usage. Windows’ command line program is harder to use than Mac’s Terminal, but the free program Console[2] gives it most features I need. [1] http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
- zheng 15y ago
  I can't really speak to performance (I don't have any large projects where I could tell a difference), but the install is painless, and the windows git shell is really nice.
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