On 2008-March-14 , at 17:45 , Joel Holdsworth wrote:

I'm still a little uncertain about this. Git seems increasingly popular, and very powerful, it just doesn't seem very obvious to use for new users. SVN is great at the moment, because there's a great GUI client for windows (TortoiseSVN), and quite a good one for linux (RapidSVN). Having easy source control clients seems like an easy way to get people involved. So I'm wondering: are there any good GUI clients for git, mercurial or bazaar?

you can see the previous message on forked thread about that ("DVCS again"). TortoiseHG and TortoiseBZR exists, TortoiseGIT does not. I don't know the status of the first two compared to TortoiseSVN. On linux there are apparently many clients for all three systems (from the look on the wiki's of each project) but it is difficult to assess their quality from just screenshots. I have not seen any file browser integration (i.e. tortoiseSVN like) for linux, which unfortunately would probably be the most useful thing to have (I read some stuff about nautilus plugins but never saw anything actually working). For OS X there's shell integration and a bunch of clients for SVN, not much for the rest. But most of them are not good enough to avoid the command line altogether, so I personally don't even use one. There is however integration with a nice text editor (textmate) for svn, git, and mercurial. nothing I can see for bazaar.

I'm not sure how critical having a good GUI is to get new developers. To compile Inkscape you eventually have to go to the command line and type stuff so... I agree however that TortoiseSVN probably makes the life of existing windows developers easier. So has anyone tested TortoiseHG/BZR ?

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