Version Control System Change

Currently SourceForge is used for: bug reports, feature requests, and source control. There is a git mirror of Geany's source control at git.geany.org.

There are many possible alternatives for both version control and project hosting for version controlled software. This section discusses some of the more popular alternatives and provides links for reference.

See wikipedia's comparison for more information.

• git: distributed, cross platform, and has many tools and plenty of documentation and http://gitref.org/reference, and reading materials (download the book here in .mobi/.epub/.pdf) there's also a website with 'git vs X' comparisons (where X is some other VCS)
  • pros:
    • widely used within the GNOME community (migrated from subversion)
  • cons
    • cons here

• Mercurial: distributed
  • pros:
    • pros here
  • cons
    • cons here

See the wikipedia list of project hosting sites and the wikipedia features list for some more information.

• github.com (features list)
  • pros
    • messaging
    • code snippets
    • extensive help
  • cons
    • cons here

• bitbucket (features list)
  • pros
    • pros here
  • cons
    • cons here

• Gitorious (features list)
  • pros
    • pros here
  • cons
    • cons here

• Google Code (features list)
  • pros
    • pros here
  • cons
    • cons here

• Launchpad (features list)
  • pros
    • pros here
  • cons
    • cons here

• Note: cite things below this section (how do we do that?)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
• https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSvnComparsion
• http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/48818

• cite some stuff here