What's the best dcvs to use with Qt ?

madjar · wrote on 6 May 2010, 10:53

A good troll is the best way to generate so activity, and to test more :)

Personally, I use bzr, but the lack of support in various IDE is anoying, and it's too bad Qt's translation system isn't compatible with Launchpad (not out of the box).

What about you ?

hhartz · wrote on 6 May 2010, 12:50

errrm, what's a dcvs? :) If you mean a versioning system, we use git and love it! Personally I still need some help when I make an ass out of myself, but being able to develop offline and then push a big chunk of commits is really awesome

aleksandar.babic · wrote on 6 May 2010, 21:59

have to admit that I tried mercurial as well. it might be faster on windows, but it is missing @stash@ out of the box. there is also Tortoise GUI.

milot.shala · wrote on 6 May 2010, 23:16

I use git for my projects also on the projects that I intent to contribute, they're using git as well, but I don't like the Linus' attitude on it :P (like the one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxkGKtVNdik)

ogoffart · wrote on 7 May 2010, 12:37

Let me feed the troll: Why would there be one best? And why would the use of Qt matters when choosing the visioning system? (Or is your question: what is the dvcs that is best integrated in Creator?)

stephen · wrote on 7 May 2010, 17:17

[quote author="Henrik Hartz" date="1273150246"]errrm, what's a dcvs? :) If you mean a versioning system, we use git and love it! Personally I still need some help when I make an ass out of myself, but being able to develop offline and then push a big chunk of commits is really awesome[/quote]

@git stash
git pull --rebase
git stash pop@

Trying out some quoting.

stephen · wrote on 7 May 2010, 17:19

It looks like textile turned two '-' into an em-dash.

mgran · wrote on 7 May 2010, 20:23

[quote author="stephen" date="1273252765"]It looks like textile turned two '-' into an em-dash. [/quote]

I'll have some words with textile, thanks!

mgran · wrote on 12 May 2010, 10:48

Textile will behave now, the fix is in.

khris · wrote on 23 May 2010, 16:23

Personally I like Mercurial. Because it works better than Git on my Windows 7. And TortoiseHg is good too.

But for Qt apps, maybe Git is better choise. See "gitorious":http://qt.gitorious.org/ . :)

idertator · wrote on 27 May 2010, 18:18

I like a lot subversion, because is very easy to set up your own server for personal user and the integration with QtCreator works very good as well

ucomesdag · wrote on 29 May 2010, 23:59

Git for me too. Before I used Subversion but switched to Git because it creates a full local copy of the repository and has much easier branch control.

tobias.hunger · wrote on 23 Jun 2010, 14:48

I saw a blueprint about adding bzr support to Qt Creator over at the ubuntu web page. Check the "Creator plugin page":http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/Qt_Creator_Plug-in_Gallery for a link.

PS: Please update the page if anything needs updating or you know of a plugin that is missing there.

croland · wrote on 25 Jun 2010, 01:54

I use Git only because it seems to work slightly better than bzr, but I'm with Milot, I can't stand Linus. One pro for me is, I'm seeing more repositories out there that support git, especially in the Ruby community.

I might give mercurial a try.

Subversion seems to be a great central repository. I sometimes have a central repo with svn and use git or bzr locally. There are pros and cons to this depending on which dvcs you use.

alexbravo · wrote on 10 Jul 2010, 01:14

A lot of Qt projects (including Qt itself) are hosted on "gitorious.org":http://gitorious.org, so I would say try git there first. It's pretty simple even for people who don't know anything about git.
This short FAQ should get you started: "FAQ":http://gitorious.org/about/faq

Ramblurr · wrote on 11 Jul 2010, 20:44

I haven't used any other DVCS then git. Using SVN after getting acquainted with git is like being a prisoner in "Plato's Cave":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave that is let out to gaze upon the sun then bundled back into the cave and chained to the wall again.

Git plug: A great reference site for git is "git ready":http://www.gitready.com/

xeonn · wrote on 7 Sept 2010, 22:28

I've tried Monotone, Mercurial, Subversion and Git. Ended up with Git.

Mercurial didn't have inline branching and rebase back then.

Git feels more natural. Things getting easier day by day. Especially when you are the kind of guy who like to make last minute decision.

john_god · wrote on 14 Sept 2010, 08:30

Shame on me, I have been lazy and still havent tested none of those, I just copy my current project directory and start a branch from there.
Humm, a couple a days ago just had a nasty hard disk crush, I think I'm going to loose 2 weeks of development, so it's time to start looking for a on-line repository. I think will try git...

flywheel · wrote on 29 Oct 2010, 02:33

I am simply unable to function with Git - it is a mutual hate/hate relationship.

Mercurial on the other hand worked almost out-of-the-box for me and it works fine in Qt-Creator to.

Franzk · wrote on 29 Oct 2010, 05:37

There's a nice comparison between git and mercurial on "some blog somewhere":http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/. It basically states that git is MacGuyver, while Mercurial is James Bond. Just read it for some more.