Gubatron

This week we have to make a final choice of what technology will be used to replace our somewhat big subversion repository (2 Gigs). Huge imports are beginning to be a pain and we’re tired of the .svn folders and not being able to commit if the central server is down. 

As time passed we become more paranoid and started making automated backups of the repo using good old rsync, so we’ve organically saw the need for a distributed option that can let us commit our work even if we’re online. 

The obvious choices are Mercurial on BitBucket or Git on GitHub. 

I’ve tried GitHub with the free account on open repositories, and I’ve tried Mercurial on my own since it feels a lot more home (command wise) if you are an old subversion user. 

If you’ve tried both of these services, I’d love to hear your opinion. 

http://bitbucket.org 
http://github.com

Update: bitbucket.org ftw. Mercurial proved to be more friendly for our svn brainwashed minds. Also it was free, that was a very attractive factor since you’re not bound by any contracts if you don’t like it. So far so good, we think we’re staying. Everything makes a lot of sense.